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Exciting Fly Fishing Gear for 2023 by Terry Jepsen As we inch forward in 2023 (always quicker than expected!), we thought we would share some of our favorite new products. The items listed below aren’t just stuff that we’ve seen in catalogs or on some mannequin, but rather items that we have personally field-tested and (more…)

Gear Review:  Skwala Sol Wading Pant & Sol Tactical Hoody Right before I hopped on a plane to Brazil to target some ridiculous jungle monsters, I received two new Skwala products to try out. I had heard great things about Skwala’s new waders, jackets, and cold weather layering pieces, but no one had tried out (more…)

Gear Review:  Skwala RS Jacket & Waders On a recent exploratory steelhead fishing trip to Kodiak Island, Alaska, I was fortunate to score a new Skwala RS Jacket and a pair of Skwala RS Waders to fish and put through their paces. I was a bit nervous about bringing two such essential pieces of equipment (more…)

For the last 45 years, the Scott Fly Rod Company has been a leader in rod design and innovation. Each fly rod is handcrafted in Montrose, Colorado by rod builders that care. These are fly rods built with a purpose, utilizing only the finest components, and these rods perform under the most severe conditions. These (more…)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Terry Jepsen (800) 669-3474 terry@theflyshop.com Skwala Fishing Now Available at The Fly Shop® REDDING, Calif. (Aug. 4, 2022) — The Fly Shop® is excited to announce it will be adding Skwala Fishing gear to its already extensive lineup of fly fishing products. At the time of this announcement, The Fly Shop® (more…)

Gear Review:  Skwala Fishing Waders Last fall Skwala Fishing created a bit of excitement when they released their new lineup of fly fishing waders. These feature-loaded waders were touted as the most innovative waders in the fly fishing world, and having spent some time in them, we’d have to agree. Skwala didn’t flood the market (more…)

Gear Review: Patagonia Men’s Sandy Cay Pants by Eric Ersch Recently returning home from a week of sharing the flats and backcountry of South Andros with a group of top-notch guides and friends, I found myself laughing as I unpacked my clothes and tossed them into the washer. I’d packed three pairs of wading pants (more…)

Gear Review: Sage R8 Core Series Fly Rods by Eric Fields As many of you know, Sage just released their new freshwater fly rod series, the R8 Core. Honestly, I was a bit shocked to hear this news as the Sage X is my favorite rod series from that company. It is rare that a (more…)

Ross Reels is getting back to its roots! Ross Reels has been an important part of the fly fishing landscape since their first reels came out in 1973. Aerospace engineer Ross Hauck founded Ross Reels in Etna, California, later moving the company to Montrose, Colorado, where it is today. Hauck perfected a number of industry (more…)

We just finished our 2022 catalog, and in it you’ll find exciting new products, some of which we want to share with you in more detail here. This list is put together by people who have fished and used the equipment – hard core fly fishers and guides who use this stuff daily. Before we (more…)