Man… gotta have shades! These sunglasses from Azure are specifically designed for anglers, featuring polarized lenses that eliminate over 99% of all reflected glare and give you 100% UV protection… you’re too young to fry those retinas! These are lightweight and provide protection from the sun and wind while checking in at under 30 bones. www.basspro.com

When casting a fly line, slickness is often the name of the game, with dirt, grime, sand and sunscreen all conspiring to slow down your line. Rio Products is hoping their new Extreme Slickness (XS) Technology will help offset these factors and keep your line flying through the guides when necessary.

The big difference with Rio’s new XT material is that the PVC coating is applied prior to curing, not after, so the “slickness factor” goes right down to the core and isn’t just a coating that can wear off or be rubbed off.

The new technology will be used in Rio’s full line of premier freshwater and saltwater lines.

For more info, visit rioproducts.com

William Joseph has risen to the forefront of fly fishing pack innovations and technology. With a variety of different styles, sizes and capacities, and customizing options, they have developed a series of packs that combine the comfort of the vest with the functionality of a pack. Read on to learn about ten distinct packs offered by William Joseph, designed to cater to the fly angler’s needs.

The Coastal
A pack designed to carry all of the things that you would carry in your vest, with two fairly large storage compartments in front at the chest level. Additional supplies such as a jacket, provisions, or extra gear can be toted in a single smaller pack in the …

In Getting Started in Fly Fishing, author Tom Fuller places a definite emphasis on the “doing” aspect of learning. With a no nonsense approach that would do Hemingway proud, he gets his readers started with nothing more than the basic information that’s absolutely necessary for day one on the stream. He offers a stripped back start-up kit and doesn’t hesitate to identify heavily promoted products that he believes to be superfulous.

Fuller shows a keeness throughout the book not to leave the aspiring fly angler sinking under the weight of complicated theories. After just an hour he has his student out on the water making his first cast to rising trout. He teaches them how to fish with dry flies, wet …

What do out-of-work CD-Rom publishers do with themselves when the bottom falls out of their industry? Well, if they’re smart…they go fishing. That’s what James Barfield did back in 2000, when faced and a burgening midlife crisis and a glaring need for change. Using up his life’s savings, he turned a month into a year and the crystalization of an idea. “The more I fished, the more I became interested in fishing equipment, and it became apparent to me that there were no good rod holders on the market for the onshore fisherman.”

Living on the edge of bankruptcy, Barfield set out researching the potential market for his new product concept over the Internet, and soon created a business plan. …

There aren’t many prettier places on earth than the South Island of New Zealand. As far as I’m concerned, any excuse to go there is a good one, but then the fact that the bottom half of Aotearoa is chock full of fat and healthy trout is probably better than most.

David Bateman Ltd have just released the fifth edition of Trout Fishing: A Guide to New Zealand’s South Island, a comprehensive 264-page-book that is a must for any angler looking to cast for trout in The Land of the Long White Cloud.

This updated edition includes new chapters on the Baton, the Upper Wangapeka and the Upper Clarence Rivers. In fact over 400 of the South Island’s best …

Welll, here it is! The third and final installment in a series of excepts from George Robert’s new book, “Master The Cast.” His publisher was generous enough let FlyFish.com share some of it with its readers…Enjoy!

The Wrist
The wrist has two positions in fly casting: bent forward, and straight. The bent-forward wrist position is easy to find. Holding the rod handle with the key grip, simply push forward with your thumb as far as you can while pulling back with your lower fingers. Your wrist will naturally stop in the bent-forward position. The bent-forward wrist aligns the butt of the rod parallel with the underside of your forearm.

The straight wrist position is slightly more difficult to find, but only because …

The following is the first in a series of excepts from George Robert’s new book, “Master the Cast” His publisher was generous enough let FlyFish.com share some of it with its readers…Enjoy!

Part I
Equipment, Loading and Unloading the Rod

Fly casting is the most important skill in fly-fishing. It is perhaps the only skill you cannot do without. A successful fly-fisher need not know how to dress flies, tie knots, rig equipment, or even how to find fish. (You can hire a guide for that.) But a successful fly-fisher must be able to present a fly to a fish.
Despite the importance of the cast, the average fly-fisher gives less thought to it than to purchasing a pair of sunglasses. In fact, many …