Last year I picked the Temple Fork Outfitters NXT Black Label Fly Reel and a spare spool (grabbed the spare spool so that I could have a floating line and sinking tip line ready to swap out at a moment’s notice). The reel has a simple and clean look. TFO […]
Spencer Mortensen
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A while back I bought the Loon Outdoors Accessory Fly Tying Tool Kit. I had seen this accessory tool kit and wanted to add a few of the tools that were in that kit. It was a better value to get them all at once rather than individually. After spending […]
I recently purchased a pack of poppers and kink shank hooks to tie up some Flymen Fishing Co Surface Seducer Poppers. I felt that I couldn’t find a better way to prepare for some hot summer days. Swinging by a pond and trying to find some aggressive bass and monster […]
A note from the Author and Fishwest Ambassador Spencer: “I was not fortunate enough to have the disposable income OR free time to make the trip. Especially with 4 kids under the age of 8 there was no way I was going to even try to convince my wife to send […]
Over the past several years I have spent many hours tying flies. I feel like many of us can relate to that feeling. I feel very fortunate that I have some friends that give me very honest feedback and have pushed me to further my skills. Over the years I’ve […]
There are times when it is great to wet wade. Some people even believe it is great to wet wade in jeans. These things happen. For the seasons and locations that it’s not wise to wet wade it is wise to have a pair of quality waders. Ending the day […]
You might have gone through moments in life, or in this case at the fly shop, where someone throws out a idea and then your group of buddies run with it for a bit and it takes on a life of its own. Usually those conversations end up as nothing […]
After Jake wrote about the way we are stewards(Why Can’t We All Just Get Along) of our sport on the water and warned us about the negative impact that “not so friendly” people can have towards others my mind got to thinking about the special experiences I’ve had on the […]
Time for an exercise in thoughts – which came first rising trout or tweed?!? Ha ha ha! No that’s not the real question today. Today’s question is one that I’ve spent a decent amount of time asking wiser fly fisherman than myself – and the answer came back a resounding, […]
There are many times in my fishing life and a few in my personal life where I have arrived a little too late to the party – started to fish for carp after far too many years of just chasing trout, started to tie flies after a 10-15 year hiatus, […]
I remember as a kid there wasn’t many things I loved more than spending time with my dad. Throwing a ball, working on the sprinklers (now that I have my own kids I think he let me interrupt his progress on the sprinklers so that mom could have a few […]
I’m feeling spoiled. Genuinely spoiled. Putting a new fly line on a reel is such a great feeling. It is a magical feeling that left me feeling, like I said, spoiled! A quality new fly line makes such a difference over an old, cracked, beaten, and heavily used fly line. […]
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