Fly Fishing Colorado

If your $60 dollar fly reel is an Expedition Large Arbor 5/6/7 wt reel from Stone Creek, you can catch a lot of fish. Sat 4/17/2010 I was on the Longmeadow Ranch with Guide Tad Howard Owner of www.coloradotrouthunters.com . Tad had the disc drag on the Expedition almost full stop to keep the fish from running [...]

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4/1/20 Monday The Fish Creek Velocity 8ft 4wt 4pc fly rod was grass cast before being tested on stream. I rigged the rod with a 3/4 wt Fish Creek reel and a 4wt line with a 1X leader on it. I use a 7.5 ft – 1X leader for grass casting and practice. During casing [...]

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In 2007 I purchased an M-60 Stone Creek Fly Reel spooled with a Stone Creek floating WF4 fly line in Sand/Tan. The reel went on a Fish Creek 7 1/2 foot 4wt rod primarily for fishing Bear Creek and other small streams. The Stone Creek fly line performed flawlessly. It turned over my 2 and [...]

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TL Johnson SLP 9ft 4wt 4pc Fly Rod Review The TL Johnson 9ft 4wt 4pc fly rod was the last TL Johnson rod I tried at the ISE show Denver January 2010. This rod was my favorite of the 4 weight rods I tried. This 4 wt rod had the typical light in the hand feel [...]

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The TL Johnson 9ft 5wt 4pc was the second rod I tried at the International Sportman’s Show in January 2010. Again, the rod was light in the hand. I went through the same warmup exercises with about 20 feet of line off the tip. This warmup with a short line and doing false casts while [...]

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