Product Reviews

In a shop at his woodsy home near Kunkletown, Pennsylvania, Art Weiler manufactures reproductions of famous maker bamboo fly rods. He’s most known for his Everett Garrison Reproduction rods in lengths six and a half to eight-foot models in line-weights from two to seven. But you will find more fine reproduction bamboo fly rods initially […]

After more than 32 jumps as a member of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, various deployments overseas (mostly pre-9/11), and a post-military stint as an engineer, disabled veteran Scott Belisle of White Haven, Luzerne County, took a leap of faith and followed his passion for fishing and he built a better mousetrap. Not actually. But

The 2019 Ross Reels Animas is a product that is simultaneously functional and beautiful and any angler will be stoked to fish one. After a year of fishing this reel and hanging hundreds and hundreds of trout on it, I cannot be more satisfied with my purchase. The Animas is a good choice as an

If you believe in luck, then you believe in lucky items. A rabbit’s foot, a lucky hat, maybe even a lucky fly. But how about a lucky net? I recently obtained a hand-crafted, 22-inch wooden handled net from Jennings Net Co in Mercer County, PA. The 22-inch handle is important here because, without it, I’m

  Broken fly rods are a fact of life, and sooner or later, everyone gets to enjoy the experience of having one of their prized possessions journey to the other side. It doesn’t matter how much you paid for the rod, either. Over 30 years of fly fishing, I’ve owned and used a number of

  Two of the stream guides that have only been available as digital downloads are now available in paperback in the online store. First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek and its Tributaries and Fly Fishing the Oil Creek Region have both been updated and expanded for these prints runs to include the most thorough information found anywhere

  One of my earliest fishing memories is driving across the bridge in Oil City as caddisflies plastered the windshield. They were everywhere, huge clouds of them high above the water. It was late April and the Grannoms were in full swing on Oil Creek. With a name like Oil Creek, you wouldn’t expect great

  After I’d been tying flies for about a year or so, I wanted to upgrade my vise. I remember walking into the local fly shop with a little bit of money in my pocket as the owner showed me a few that might be in my price range. I bought the most expensive one,

  When I tied on my first J:Son fly, I felt like I was tying on a real bug. Everything about them is realistic, from their body shape and proportion to their wing positioning and style. The detail in each fly makes it as much a work of art as it does a tool to

  I first checked out the book The History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies from the local library, but I enjoyed it so much that I bought my own copy. Fly fishing is both a nostalgic and an artistic pastime. Often, the flies we use are elevated above standard trout fare. As a result, a