White Gloves Included

Today's top dollar fly item on ebay. 

HARDY CASCAPEDIA BRUNSWICK 1/0 and 4/0 LIMITED EDITION SET FLY FISHING REEL 

Yours for $7,405.

The Best Gear for Fly Fishing in the Cowboy State

Fly fishing in Wyoming comes with its own unique flair. From floating in drift boats to casting in waders on the Snake River or Flat Creek, the fly fishing scene in the Cowboy State offers something for everyone and requires a versatile kit to take advantage of secluded pools filled with rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout.

LINK (via:Gear Patrol)

Take an All-New Phil Monahan Fly-Fishing Trivia Challenge

This week, Phil's got 20 new questions about where famous trout rivers end up.

LINK (via: Orvis)

Wild and wacky, but under warranty

Question: Why is Kilby’s mail so full of fishing rods in need of repair?

Answer: Because Kilby is a warranty supervisor for Far Bank Enterprises, in charge of overseeing warranty claims for both Sage and Redington brand fly fishing rods. He receives the damaged equipment and, like a fishing-obsessed crime scene investigation tech, sifts through the owner’s story and the physical evidence to ensure, if at all possible, the damage is covered.

It almost always is, he said, which makes the stories even funnier.

LINK (via: The Bainbridge Island Review)

Today on E-Bay

Patagonia Great Divider signed by everyone's favorite fly fishing guide. 

Stop chumming for giant trevally on Kiritimati

Whether you think it's unsportsmanlike or not, the practice of chumming is changing giant trevally behavior in the Kiritimati lagoon.

How do we know?

Affixing a tracking tag to a Kiritimati GT

A group of us spent three weeks over the course of two years studying giant trevally on Kiritimati and we are actively lobbying the government to ban the practice. Anglers that have fished the island a hell of a lot longer than the lodges chumming the flats every day can attest to the days when shots at big trevally were a common occurrence on the flats. Since the advent of chumming those encounters are now  fewer and far between. The science is clear, chumming is having an effect on the behavior of the giant trevally in the lagoon.

So stories like this one in the Wall St. Journal or this one from the NY Times do a disservice to anglers that choose to target trevally on the flats without chumming.

If you really want to have your ass kicked by a giant trevally on Kiritimati you should consider getting out into the blue water with some decent conventional tackle. An encounter with a giant trevally on the outside with a top water plug or swim bait will trump your lagoon caught fly rod GT every day of the week.