By Kirk Deeter

Danielsson reels are about to make a big splash on the American fly-fishing scene. This brand is already wildly popular in Scandinavia, where 90 percent of professional guides use them. I believe they'll take off once more Americans who appreciate the combination of form and function become familiar with them. [ Read Full Post ]

By Kirk Deeter

We recently asked you to guess our upcoming trip destination; the winner to receive signed, first-edition copies of Tim Romano's "What a Trout Sees" and my "Fly Fishing for Carp."

Ejunk, you nailed it: We're going to Argentina. 

Romano and I will soon be departing for Argentina to fish for golaith brown trout on the Rio Grande River. We will be staying at the famous Kau Tapen Lodge. From there, we will head up to Cordoba to shoot doves. [ Read Full Post ]

By Tim Romano

Yeah, it's a bit cliché but I want to know what you all are planning on doing differently fishing wise for 2013. A friend and I had a conversation the other day about what we'd like to learn, try, visit and do more of next year. We came up with a number of items.

Mine include really learning how to spey cast with some proficiency and starting to figure out our local reservoirs for big lakers and musky on the fly. I'd also like to bone up on my local warm water locations. Lord knows there's enough of them. I simply need to get out a bit more and do some exploring. [ Read Full Post ]

By Tim Romano

I trust everyone had a relaxing and fruitful Christmas. Today the Fly Talk boys are doling out one last present with our last caption contest for 2012: a pair of Redington Sonic-Pro Wader Pants. The image you see here, which I find "season appropriate," garnered a number of pretty funny responses. There were "Christmas Vacation" and Vanilla Ice references which I found hilarious. The best of which I've listed below for your enjoyment. The winning caption though, came from seanhellwig, who wrote: "I thought we were going to cut a hole and sit in a shack all day." That's funny... [ Read Full Post ]

By Kirk Deeter

This one is for Sinjin Eberle, who said he wanted us to reprise the "see this, do that" lessons.

In this case, we're looking at a classic midsummer trout scenario (appropriately, this shot is from Argentina). The water is very low and clear. The river bottom is a mix of fine gravel, rocks and sand. It's a hot, bright day (the sun is almost directly overhead). This is a spring creek, so the water temperatures are still perfectly cool. There are rainbows and a couple of browns lurking in this run.

Can you guess where the fish are, what fly we used, and how we approached them? [ Read Full Post ]

By Kirk Deeter

Last year, I said that 2012 would be "The Year of the Carp."  That was meant to be more of a personal New Year's resolution than a fishy twist on the Chinese New Year tradition.

Indeed, this was a carp-filled year for me. I visited a number of destination hotspots with the unique bent of chasing trash fish. For example, I went to Idaho's Snake River to fish for carp instead of trout. I went to San Diego to hang out with my buddy Conway Bowman, but we didn't chase mako sharks. We went carp fishing. I went to Michigan and caught carp... but I also caught pike, panfish and trout because you can always fish for just about anything in Michigan. [ Read Full Post ]