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 [...]

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 [...]

Well, Ron vouched for him, so against Gary’s better judgment (he he), we let Clancy is on the team too. Here he is with our a new prototype St 761-1(IM). Clancy has been guiding for over 50 years. Pretty tough to compete with that. Clancy is responsible for a new side drifting stick we’re coming [...]

Gary and I got out and did some rod testing last Thursday with three steelhead guides. I was definitely low guy in the boat. I’ve been gear fishing for steelhead only a handful of times. Not one of the guys I was fishing with had less than 15 years of 150 plus days experience on [...]

I’ll admit that when it was 38 degrees and raining sideways, it was tough to get out of the tent and on the water. We’re pretty glad we did. I’ll try and post a more detailed rod testing report later, but I think it’s safe to say that we are happy with our ST 961. [...]

Scott Gimbert of Mudhole went fishing the other day with one of our blanks.  In the interest of full disclosure, Scott is one of our distributors, but here is what he had to say: Well it’s been about 7 weeks since receiving our first shipment of blanks from North Fork Composite (NFC). I had the [...]

We have been working on getting what we call the “keystone” fly blank—the 905—locked in, and are probably a week away from it. We have the power dead-on, we just want to see a slightly faster action (CCS 66/67-ish) Once we have the pattern set, the other fly blanks in the catalog will come more [...]