The Smoky Mountain Showdown was held Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5 on the Ravens Fork in Cherokee NC and the Nantahala River near Wesser NC. 27 anglers vied for individual honors while 7 four man teams competed for team honors. The draw was held Friday May 3 at the Chestnut Inn near Cherokee. [...]
The weekend of April 19-21, 2013 saw the gathering of a number of young anglers for the Team USA Youth Fly Fishing Clinic in Cherokee NC. The clinic was held on the Nanatahala River and other waters in the surrounding area. Team USA hosts several youth clinics throughout the country with the next one scheduled [...]
Nestled in the heart of the Chattahoochee National Forest lies the Dukes Creek/ Smithgall Woods Conservation area. Sold to the state of Georgia by late publisher Charles Smithgall, Dukes Creek has become a mecca for anglers in search of large wild trout in a pristine setting. Special regulations including barbless hooks and artificial only lures [...]
Fly Fishing Team USA representative Paul Bourcq just returned from the Fips-Mouche World Congress and brings news of the United States winning World Championship bids and new World Level competition standards: Guys, I just left the Fips Meeting. Everything passed essentially except for the 3 weight and up line. So 2 times the rod length [...]
All Eyes will be on Colorado this fall with two Gold Level events hitting the slopes: America Cup September 10-15th and The US Nationals October 3-6th. Central Rockies world class fisheries and top notch competitive fly fishing will be center stage. The waters in the region are waking from their winter slumber in a much [...]
Classically the Fly Fishing Industry Gods have wanted us to believe that every rod forged in heaven has a matching line weight that should not be deviated by any margin. This might be partially true for the competitive caster… but if your end game is actually catching fish then more often than not the line [...]
When it comes to the River/Stream Comp angler 10 foot rods are pretty much an industry standard. So much so that you’d be hard pressed to find a single competitor on the circuit without at least 2 of them… usually quite a few more than that. At the 10 foot mark you seem to get [...]
George Daniel dominated the American Competitive Fly Fishing scene in the late 2000s before his early retirement from active competition and has recently released an in depth hardcover book entitled “Dynamic Nymphing” which chronicles the techniques and disciplines which took him to the top. In this interview George takes us inside this exciting new manual, [...]
RIO’s award winning InTouch Deep series of lines are packed with features for the Stillwater fly fisherman. Built with RIO’s revolutionary ConnectCore technology, the Deep series offers extremely low stretch allowing anglers to feel the softest of takes. Additionally a built in “hang marker” shows anglers when to stop retrieving and fish the “hang”. The [...]
Confluence Never before have technology, comfort and performance come together so smoothly. All these features will ensure that you get the most from your time on the water. With the new William Joseph� AirTrack� Suspension, you will forget you are wearing anything; no matter how much gear you have managed to stuff into it. The [...]
There is a new breed of competitive fly fisherman showing up in North America with the proliferation of TroutLegend regional teams. Youth competitors with a dedicated lust for the sport almost unheard of before, and among them, the young gun from Georgia Gabriel Wittosch is leading the way. Wittosch has an impressive record in 2012 [...]
There are few active competitors on the American Competitive fly fishing scene with more World Championship experience than Josh Stephens who represented consecutively from 2007 to 2010. The Team NC leader has been quietly slipping into podium finishes all over the map and finished 7th overall in North America in the 2010/11 TroutLegend Ranking Cycle. [...]
The Georgia based Team DeadDrift leader Corey Roberts has been on a serious tear in the 2012 TroutLegend Ranking Cycle. Capping 5 competitions by April Roberts’ has been in a tight hunt for North Americas’ Top Angler position. Currently in 3rd Roberts has a good margin on Team USA heavy weight Josh Graffam and is [...]
Good Morning Dejon, Good Morning everyone, I was poaching the other day……… Well actually I wasn’t. Although if anyone had been watching they would have thought I was. You see I was deliberately fly-fishing for Brown Trout out side of the season which closed on the 6th of October. However…… The Scotland Act. 1998 Order. [...]
The purpose of this column is to slowly but surely keep our friends on the other side of the Atlantic up to date with what’s going on in the competition scene here in Europe, so over the coming months I will be writing about competitions in as many European countries as I can. For this [...]
Good Morning, I have not been fishing since yesterday… Loch Style Competitions are finished for the season but some venues are open until the end of November. So I spent the day on Coldingham Loch with my friend Mark Howard. I picked Mark up at his house just outside my hometown of Berwick on Tweed [...]
RIO’s award winning InTouch Deep series of lines are packed with features for the Stillwater fly fisherman. Built with RIO’s revolutionary ConnectCore technology, the Deep series offers extremely low stretch allowing anglers to feel the softest of takes. Additionally a built in “hang marker” shows anglers when to stop retrieving and fish the “hang”. The [...]
Confluence Never before have technology, comfort and performance come together so smoothly. All these features will ensure that you get the most from your time on the water. With the new William Joseph� AirTrack� Suspension, you will forget you are wearing anything; no matter how much gear you have managed to stuff into it. The [...]
