There is something about catching a fish with a fly you tied. Do you know someone that likes to tie their own flies? Perhaps that person is you? Whether you’re shopping for a gift for yourself or someone else, don’t fret. We here at Fishwest have your back with […]
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The Brule River X-Legs is an absolute must-have pattern for chasing Lake Superior steelhead on the famous Brule River in northern Wisconsin. It has caught countless fish under an indicator, even as a swung fly, and is one of the most popular stonefly patterns in the area. It works not […]
Sometimes flies are created out of necessity, and other times they are created out of new materials that leave you scratching your head what to do with. This fly came out of the latter, after a friend of mine introduced me to Semperfli Straggle String. I had seen him use […]
This fly pattern actually came about when my daughter asked her father to create a “princess fly.” She asked for a beautiful purple fly that only a princess would use. Little did she know that a princess fly is a deadly variation of the Copper John that most fish chow […]
As the chill of winter sets in and 2018 slinks to an end, I’ve had plenty of time to reflect on an incredible year of fishing. The dry fly days in January, tossing shiny and obnoxious flies into pools deep in the jungle, and landing some hard-hitting Kokanee back home […]
I can’t begin to explain how excited I was to try this product out. When I first heard of it, I searched high and low locally for it, but it wasn’t available yet at the shops I stopped in at. I was so close to buying it online when one […]
Do you want to go blind? Well, neither did I. But sometimes in the name of science you have to look directly at the sun during an eclipse, just to try and prove those egghead scientists wrong. Is the new Loon Infiniti Light as bright as a thousand suns? The […]
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