LOOP REELS – The Facts Ma’am

 
 

All the details, all the specs you need to know on our new range of Loop Reels. Plus some very nice photos.

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Friday DJ _ Fishing with Bob

Dylan on the piano, accompanied by Mark Knopfler on guitar. I actually purchased Infidels on vinyl back in the day, it sould have been included. This is one of the tracks I have in a playlist on YouTube for Journal deadlines and fly tying binges. I need to get it in a format [...]

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Fishing Report 12-24-08

Looking forward to plenty of low water and great fishing for the Holidays.
We will be closed on Christmas day but open every day through the Holiday Season from 7.30am (except for 8am on Sunday Dec 27 and January 4), for flies leaders tippet, or just a yarn and some coffee.

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DAVY WOTTON MASTER STREAMER CLASS

DEMAND for the Davy Wotton Master Tying Classes has been tremendous, and we know this additional class will be a hot ticket as well.
Davy will host Streamer Class, including  his Shad Fly, on February 28 in the store. The same price $70, limited to 6 persons, and bring your own vice and tools. This really [...]

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Cali Boys Nail Browns and Bows

High water may have been a curse for the waders this year but it produced some outstanding trout. Clint Wilkinson sent us some photos and a report from a trip with two guys from California who enjoyed some of the last days of the ‘08 high water. Some really nice fish and great pics from [...]

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‘Twas The Night Before Caddis’ – Richard Frank

  Twas the night before Christmas when down by the stream
The full moon looked out on a chill winter scene.
A lone trout was sipping a midge in his brook,
Untroubled by worries of fishers with hooks.

THIS was just too good to pass up. Somehow I’d never stumbled across Richard Frank’s “Night Before Caddis” poem but trust Moldy [...]

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Happy Holidays From The Mountain River Fly Shop

A very happy, and perhaps fishy, Holiday season to y’all from all of us here at the Mountain River Fly Shop.
Now enjoy some photographs from the past year. Just follow the instructions (made necessary as like trying to cross brown trout and rainbows, our blog and slideshow software weren’t compatible).

  Listen to this CLICK ONE. [...]

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A Merry Aussie Christmas

From the files of our resident Aussie lunatic, we demanded a translation.

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Christmas Video Cheer

Over the last 48 weeks of the Journal we have tried pretty hard to find some of the most entertaining, the most instructive and the coolest videos available on the ‘Net.
Well we found a cool way to blow a few hours between opening pressies and devouring turkey.
Click here to find the full list of videos we [...]

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Monday Pictorial – December 22

 Steve,
While fishing the Norfork, I caught this critter below the damn near the parking lot !
Just kidding! Ourman Joe Nicklo, who seems to becoming the Monday Pictorial photographer at-large also seems to have a sense of humor.
“ Thought you’d enjoy seeing this ugly looking critter better known as a Red Lip Bat Fish. Bat Fish are [...]

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35″ Brown Caught on Film

  
Perhaps the largest brown trout ever captured on film, Frank Smethurst TU TV host Frank Smethurst landed this 35″ brown trout on the White on Wednesday.
You can find Clay Henry’s article on this fish and the TU TV filming this week here. More details tomorrow and we are trying to get a better picture.
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FRIDAY DJ – Classical Touch

Its not every Friday you need a jolt of adrenaline with your morning caffeine, so this week something mellow and soothing.
Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D Major is almost cliched in film and life as wedding music. Mostly you get the intro but take the time, to relax shut your eyes and [...]

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