February 2019, three amigos had the opportunity to venture to the Rio Irigoyen in the South East of Tierra del Fuego in Southern Patagonia. This river is truly a special place with excellent sea trout fishing surrounded by a pristine tree-lined wilderness.
We were fortunate to have been invited...
We were fortunate to join the Deveron, Bogie & Isla Rivers Charitable Trust on their Trout monitoring project. Each year the team head into the upper catchment and electro fish for a sample of large brown trout and record their size, weight, and take scale samples.
The team are now tagging a...
This short video filmed with the pike guru Stuart Sutherland for FISH X shows some of the awesome pike fishing on the fly Scotland has to offer. Filmed at the lake of Menteith if you would like to give Pike on the fly a go get in touch.
In the past, the decaying carcasses of 100’s of adult salmon would fertilise the stream and create an environment which boosted the growth of young fish. Streams that lack dead adult salmon have fewer insects (less ‘fish food’), so that the surviving fish fry are smaller and from fewer parents. ...
The Improved homer Rhodes knot is one we have trusted for the last few years for big chinook salmon in Chile. A super strong knot to fish the hook on a loop.
Scott De Buyen first showed us this knot first on the Arroy in Norway and he has trusted it for years in the saltwater scene and large Nor...
Father and Son Brandon & Britton have a shared passion and bond through fly-fishing. Often searching for far out remote destinations, the far south of New Zealand's South Island would inevitably reach the top of their bucket-list. Fiordland National Park offers world class trout fishing withi...
In this Video we talk you through the Roll Cast, the most basic form of speycasts but essential in understanding the mechanics of how speycasting works, and building muscle memory to improve you other speycasts.
The Double Uni knot is our go to knot for attaching two diameters of leader material together.
Useful tip You can make your own tapered leaders by using this knot tapering down the diameter down the leader to the fly. If attaching leader to braid make 7+ turns with the braid.
This Video shows you how to adjust the maximum or minimum drag on your LOOP Reel.
Useful Tip If you are going on a trip for big salmon or salt water trip adjust your drag to the maximum. Remember this will also effect your minimum drag so you may want to tone it down again for your summer fishin...
This video offers a couple of tips on how to wind on your backing to the reel correctly.
Step by step instruction on how to change your LOOP reel from right to left hand wind or vice versa. Useful tip. Make sure to have a clean work surface to do this on as there are component parts that must be put back together in the correct order.
If you don't feel comfortable doing it, take it ...
This video shows how to attach your backing to a fly line using the Albright knot. This is an excellent knot when the fly line does not have a welded loop to connect to and also very good for attaching your backing to a nylon shooter running line.
If you have a welded loop in the rear end of you...