We saved the best for last.

Nice fish, not so sure about his choice of colleges, but I suppose ducks are people too. I mean, Peter went to UO and we think he’s okay.

Note to you that haven’t chosen a school yet, no UO shirt = bigger fish.

Nothing better than bright fish on a St960.

Hmmm.  Headed to the BBQ.

A double shot here.

Another pretty fish.

Jesse Zalonis has been staining the handles of our St 960, 961 and 962s red. Looks like he’s been pretty successful.

There may be better folks to learn to fly cast from, but I don’t know many.

Just killing a Sunday afternoon casting the new Trout Fly 905. It was great to meet Peter’s dad, Ken, who was in town.

Our fearless and dedicated business intern, Peter Dixon, decided to find out what all this steelhead hoopla is all about. So, with a warning to dress warm and have good rain gear, I made the arrangements. Besides, a little field testing is always good and I needed to show our sticks to Charlie Johnston, a [...]

It’s always good to see our rods being used and putting smiles on folks faces. Here is a few words from our Australian distributor about some FW 702s he has been testing. I think I may need to take a trip to Australia!
Hi Jon
Thought you might like to see what sort of fish we catch [...]

Here is a short video shot on the Olympic Peninsula. Jake Nelson is the star.
Jake hits some steel with a new ST 961-2(IM)

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!

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 [...]