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gifts under 500

The holidays are here! The magic, the sleigh bells, the hand warmers in your waders, AND gift giving. Help us make the whole process easy for you. Read about the 2017 5 favorite gifts under $500 along with personalized descriptions about why we would want these products in our stockings […]

Gear Reviews New Products

2017: 5 Fly Fishing Gifts under $500

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published November 24, 2017
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The holidays are here! The magic, the sleigh bells, the hand warmers in your waders, AND gift giving. Help us make the whole process easy for you. Read about our 2017 favorite gifts under $100 along with personalized descriptions about why we would want these products in our stockings or […]

Gear Reviews New Products

2017: 6 Fly Fishing Gift Items Under $100

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published November 21, 2017
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  Orvis Tacky Deluxe Box $35.00 The ultimate fly box. Orvis and Tacky created this box that holds a ton of flies, is low-profile, lightweight, and very durable. Tacky boxes provide a silicon inside unmatched from any other box providing a clean organization even for the clumsy fly box dropping […]

Gear Reviews New Products

2017: 5 Fly Fishing Gift Items under $50

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published November 17, 2017
prepping gear for winter

Guest contribution by Ray Kyle, Vail Valley Anglers Shop Supervisor and Fly Tying Instructor.  You can find him published in the Vail Daily newspaper weekly through the summer and monthly through the winter.  For us, there is no end to the fishing season here in Colorado. Others pack away their […]

Winter Fly Fishing

Prepping your Fly Fishing Gear for Winter

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published November 9, 2017
loop q review

Finding a fly rod with enough versatility to justify a new purchase is often difficult to attain given the vast array of rods available. The Loop Q series of fly rods possess the all-around qualities most anglers desire in their equipment, casting power, fish fighting finesse and a pleasant price […]

Gear Reviews

Loop Q Fly Rod Review

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published October 26, 2017
fly line slickness

Guest contribution by John Van Vleet, Marketing Manager at Scientific Anglers.  Did you miss Part 1: Fly Line Technology | Texturing? Read it here.  You might have heard, or read, about slickness additives in fly lines before. They’ve been around for quite some time. This technology always garners a mention […]

Gear Reviews

Fly Line Technology | Slickness

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published October 20, 2017
fly line texturing

Guest contribution by John Van Vleet, Marketing Manager at Scientific Anglers. Over the past decade, no technological advancement has affected fly lines nearly as much as the introduction of texturing. This techonology was pioneered by Scientific Anglers in 2007. From a performance and durability standpoint, textured fly lines shoot farther, […]

Gear Reviews

Fly Line Technology | Texturing

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published October 5, 2017
try trout spey

Trout Spey – you may have heard that term or others like “Trout Skagit” or “Micro Spey” thrown around. Too often, gear junkies unfortunately are guilty of putting this style of fishing on a pedestal. They turn it into a language more similar to Chinese Calculus rather than one of […]

Tips and Tricks

8 Reasons to try Trout Spey

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published September 26, 2017

As you would expect – fly fishing in the South Island of New Zealand was an incredible adventure. Even though the fishing was very technical and I haven’t been fly fishing for that long, it was still worth the trek to the other side of the world. I definitely recommend […]

Destination and Travel

Destination Trout | New Zealand

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published September 15, 2017
Fishing with Big Foam

Early Autumn, September to be exact, a time of year when the low flows of late summer begin to turn the warm water temperatures towards a cooling trend creating a unique opportunity to pull the biggest trout in the river to the surface to eat. The low water of late […]

Colorado Rivers

Low Water + Big Foam Flies

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published September 6, 2017
Flyathalon

The Rocky Mountain Flyathlon (RMF) has been touted as “Colorado’s Coolest New Triathlon” by 5280 Magazine. A Flyathlon is an event that combines fly fishing, trail running, drinking craft beer and fundraising for water and native fish conservation….with some of the coolest people on the planet! I first learned about […]

News and Updates

Flyathlon | Run + Fish + Beer

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published August 25, 2017
specialty fly rods

The world of fly fishing opened up and you fell in love. Now where will your fly fishing adventures take you? As the vast array of opportunities opens up for your fly angling it becomes apparent that there are a lot more variations in the fly fishing arena to choose […]

Gear Reviews

How to choose a Fly Rod, Part 2 | Specialty …

by Vail Valley Anglers Admin
Published August 15, 2017

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