Jason has mentioned that he has more 2-piece fly blanks to test than I previously realized. If all of them work out, there will be a good pile of fly-specific stuff soon (including light trout, mid-weights and steelhead, with saltwater next on the list)! Jason mentioned that the current actions are focused more toward “classic [...]

Since 9 out of 10 questions at the Expo were about fly blanks, I thought I’d give the rest of you an update on where we are.
We have a 904, 905 and 906 in the first trial stage. That means that we have built the first round. The second step is for Gary and Jason [...]

Wow, what an incredible show. Gary’s talk was standing room only and at one point, Gary was surrounded three deep in front of our booth with folks hanging on his every word. We were overwhelmed by the support.
I asked Gary his thoughts about the show and what he wanted to share with you all and [...]

North Fork is currently selling hats, decals, and autographed Gary Loomis T-shirts. If you are at the High Point International Custom Rod Building Exposition, please stop by and take a look!
We are also proud to have two distributors who will be displaying our blanks at the Expo! Please take the time to stop by the [...]

We’re proud to be building blanks for Trey and any other rod maker that is interested in moving to blanks made in our little shop in Woodland, Washington, USA.
You can see a review here.
If you watch at the video, we don’t recommend yarding up on the middle of the blank with your off hand!

How’s that for a set of acronyms? Well, if you know what they mean, the you know what the chart is all about (if you don’t know yet, have a look here). North Fork’s itinerant graphic designer slaved for two days over hot pixels to get this thing into shape, and now it’s yours to [...]

The handle was nice…

I was lucky enough to go fishing on Saturday with Paul Howarth, head of sales for REC, and Jesse Sampson of Small Stream Outfitters. We fished a small coastal river in search of steelhead. Despite a really rough beginning stretch involving a queasy stomach, three lost bobber rigs and continuous retying, we settled into the [...]