Fly Fishing Colorado

The third Mystic River fly rod I tried was the M693-4 6 wt 9’3". This was my favorite of all three rods. This rig was outfitted with a 7.5 ft 3 X leader and a yarn fly. I tested it differently than the other two. Starting out at 60 feet or so using double hauls, I was hitting the [...]

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During the AFFTA 2009 show, I tried 3 Mystic River Fly Rods. The M593-4, a 5wt 4pc was the second one I tried. This rod like the all the four piece rods had both stripper guides on the second section up from the butt section. I started my casting at the NFFSP round practice targets [...]

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The National Fly Fishing in Schools Program (NFFSP) is a nationwide program that teaches our youth how to flyfish. It is taught by PE teachers in grades (6 – 12) as an "in school" curriculum. There is also a college / university program. The program uses big round targets with some 18 species of trout [...]

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The Wonder Cloth lives up to its name. The cloth comes in three sizes, a dry fly cloth to take moisture out of water soaked dry flies, a medium cloth to clean other items and a boat cloth for the large jobs. The dry fly demo consisted of removing a very water soaked CDC winged dry fly [...]

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One of the highlights of the AFFTA 2009 show for me was meeting Steve Rajaff. Steve has won the American Casting Association annual event 34 consecutive times and the bi-annual World Casting Casting Championship 13 times. In addition, Steve has won the International Casting Sport Federation’s World Championship held every two years 13 times. This is [...]

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