Tag: Rio

SAGE X 990-4 REVIEW

SAGE X 990-4 A Cannon in the Hand by Jeff Mishler After winter steelhead season winds down, the months of May and June mean long hours spent casting shooting tapers into the wind hoping that, on at least one presentation, a spring chinook eats my fly. By the end of the day, a ten weight […]

Skagit Lines on Single Handers

I produced a short clip of Yours Truly showing how easy it is to incorporate a Skagit Line into your single hand rod fishing arsenal. For tight quarters, there’s really nothing better: I’m developing SM5 to cover this material, presented by expert anglers dedicated to using Skagit style lines on small rods.  The world of […]

New Running Lines for Cold Water Steelheading

I love to fish mono behind my shooting heads.  It’s effortless to jack casts of any length and have total control over the swing because mono, being so light, is easy to manipulate when the line is laid out on the water.  But if you fish mono a lot, you know that winter steelheading with […]

Amazing, slow sinking, best casting still water line I have ever used!

This goes against the grain of this site, but I do love to cast a single hander long distances and make long slow retrieves for anything that swims. Thanks to Simon Gawesworth, I’ve been jacking those casts with this line: http://www.rioproducts.com/fly-lines/saltwater/coldwater/outbound-short/ The WF/10/SI overloads a 9 foot 10 weight perfectly.  The bullet taper turns over […]

Skagit Master Affiliate Network! Make $ from your site!

The great thing about Affiliate Networks is that you don’t have to do anything to make some $$$ other than post the link on your page in a place where people easily see it.   The more Skagit Master DVD sales you generate, the more you make.   12% on $39.99 is about $5.  I’ll […]

SM2 in Blu Ray???

I was wondering how many of you Skagit Master fans would be interested in an HD/Blu Ray version of our shows.  The best player for Blu Ray I’ve discovered is a Sony Play Station.   So, if you have one of those or a Blu Ray player, are you game?   The retail would be […]

Skagit Master 2 is ready for Pre Order!

Go ahead. Buy now. But please allow 3 full weeks for delivery. This will change by Xmas and we will be on a regular delivery schedule. Thanks, JM

Editing hard after four days on the Big D.

It had been nearly 20 years since my dad and I floated the big D together. Thankfully, a couple good buddies have fathers about my Dad’s age and they hit it off. Big Time! Can you say “We went to Brown Town early and full speed!” While my dad struggled with the two hander, he […]

Perfect Rod/Line Combo for tight spots

Thanks to the people at SAGE and Rio Products, we got to cast many new rods and match them to various lines during the production of Skagit Master Volume 2. One killer outfit turned out to be a Z Axis 7126-4 and 525 gr. Skagit Short with 12 feet of T-14 or T-17. In tight […]