Daily Reel...'Switch It Up'

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Boom...Morgan

TLTFF Beaver Island '14 - Days 6 & 7

Recap: 

Days 1 & 2

Day 3

Day 4

Day 5

An absolutely awesome final day on the island that transitioned over to an easy final day full of travel. A lot was in store for the next two days despite only having a half day of fishing left.

Day 6 - June 24th

No alarms again today, the excitement of knowing we still had a half day of guided fishing ahead of us was enough to have everyone up early around 7am. The house buzzed with cleaning and packing to prepare everything for the cleaning service so we wouldn't have to rush and stress while we were fishing and later, once we got off the boats.

We packed our bags and threw everything on the day room/porch before heading through the overcast morning weather towards McDonough's Deli for our final breakfast on the island. After polishing off a delicious plate of grub and a cup of joe, we headed back to the house and prep our gear. Since today was a half day we only brought the bare bone necessities for the flats. Today, I was paired up with Luis again on Austin Adduci's boat. Mario and Austin were on Kevin Morlock's boat and Joel and Cheryl were on Steve Martinez's boat. 

As the guides pulled up and we loaded the gear, it began to sprinkle a little. The breeze was pretty steady with slight gusts of wind that probably topped out at 5kts. That wasn't going to stop us or keep us off the Lake. As Luis and I loaded up Austin's truck, we were both pretty excited to (hopefully) finish off the last guided day with a bang.

The Fiberglass Manifesto's '12 Days of Christmas'

Via TFM:

This post is just a heads up that the yearly craziness of gift giving called the 12 Days of Christmas starts on the morning of TOMORROW, Monday, December 9th and will run through Friday, December 20th.

As in years past, I've set this up as a series of daily giveaways where all you have to do is send in an email each day to participate and the random number generator picks a winner or winners early the next morning before I start off another giveaway for that day. 

This is the third year of the 12 Days of Christmas giveaways and each time around it's grown a little bigger than the last.  This year's sponsors could not have been more supportive with over three dozen gifts to be given away over the course of the event.

The 12 Days of Christmas is sponsored this year by the generosity of the following gear companies...

BOZEMAN REEL
COSTA 
ECHO
FINN UTILITY
GHILLIE KETTLE
GOAT HEAD SOLE SPIKES
HOWLER BROTHERS
MARSH WEAR
NATURE BOY DESIGNS
ORVIS
PATAGONIA
REDINGTON 
REP YOUR WATER
RIO PRODUCTS 
SIMMS
SMITHFLY 
STORMY KROMER
SWIFT FLY FISHING 
THE LITTLE RED BOOK OF FLY FISHING
TIPPETAC
TOPO DESIGNS 
VERMONT FLY GUYS

The 12 Days of Christmas giveaways are a lot of fun, allow me to highlight gear and companies that I really dig, and of course offers everyone a chance to win some phenomenal prizes.

This is also a very fitting way, within this season of giving, for me to say thank you to the readership that makes writing this website each morning before work (or late at night before bed) more than worthwhile and a lot of damn fun.  Thank you.  

See you bright and early on Monday (TOMORROW) morning. Please don't start sending emails before then.



Boom...Morgan

E-Zine...Big R Fly Shop - Sept 2013

Boom...Morgan

Carp Tournaments

For those of you who have been following the carp fly fishing game for a little while may have heard about some of the carp fly fishing tournaments that are, for the most part, in their sophomore year. The three we're aware of and have on our own bucket lists to do (as long as they continue to happen annually) were a HUGE hit last year and have made their way back by popular demand. Some of the carp anglers we've talked to this week so far have been in these tournaments, especially Orvis' Carp-ocalypse out in Washington.

For those of you who don't know much about them, here's a little more info so you can either prepare yourself for this year's event or next years...

ECHO Glass Series

Via TFM:

While I didn't make it to IFTD this year, I did have an idea that there would be some interesting fiberglass fly rods introduced, one of which were the new offerings from ECHO Fly Rods with their ECHO Glass Series.
Luckily the fellows from Gink & Gasoline were there and met with Tim Rajeff to get the full breakdown and background on these new fly rods.  

The ECHO Glass Series will be offered in the following lengths and line weights.  

6'3" Two Weight
6'9" Three Weight
7'4" Four Weight
7'10" Five Weight 

Each of these fly rods will be three piece models and will have a downlocking reel seat hardware.  The ECHO Glass Series will be priced at $200.00.

I'll be getting a couple of these to demo and review and if all goes right I'll be adding them to the T.F.M. Fly Rod Loan Program as well.

More information on the Glass Series should be up on the ECHO Fly Rods website soon.

Boom...Morgan

Steve's First Salmon

A big congrats goes out to Steve Carr, friend of TLTFF, for catching and releasing his first salmon up on the Salmon River in NY! CONGRATS Steve! Check Steve out on Instagram as @flyfishing84...

Boom...Morgan

Daily Reel...This. Is. Spey.

Via Three of Trout on Vimeo, by-far my favorite subscription this month.

Boom...Morgan

Daily Reels...Rod Breaks, Actions, and Powers

Here's a little dose of Tim Rajeff for your daily entertainment and knowledge...

 

 Boom...Morgan

Caddis Fly Deal #20...

How about a great buy on a solid complete fly fishing outfit? The Echo Solo Trout Outfit gets an angler started with a quality rod, reel, floating line land leader for under $130. Rod includes Cordura case and sock as well as the Echo Lifetime Warranty.

Click HERE to get this great value for just $129

Boom...Morgan

Daily Reel...Trick Cast

Check out this gnarly cast...awesome trick



Tight Lines...Morgan