Articles With the Tag . . . efficiency

The RS boot is what happens when you start with a blank sheet and ask, “What do serious anglers actually need in a boot?” The RS boots are not overbuilt. They’re purpose-built, for those who fish. Skwala’s RS boots check every box on my wish list for the perfect wading boot.

Part of what distinguishes fly fishing from other styles of fishing is retrieving line by hand. But then we need to get the line back out there. When should we shoot the line back through the rod guides? No one ever seems to talk about these options. But there are four of them.

We can shoot line on the pickup, on the backcast, on the forward cast and on the forward cast following the power stroke . . .

Everyone has their own method. And as long as you have a plan and a reason to change, then it’s probably just as good as mine. But I have a lot more to change about how I present the streamer before I actually clip off and change the fly . . .

We’re talking about  how to shorten your time at the tailgate or the trunk. Just get your waders on, your boots laced, and get to the river. It  should be as simple as that, but it’s not uncommon for anglers to waste a half hour or more just getting ready to go fishing.

Most anglers hate this wasted time. In fact, all of this preparation just to go fishing puts a lot of anglers off in the first place. And the colder it is, or the longer you plan to be out there fishing, or the more tactics you plan to use the more all of this pre-trip prep is required.

We want a system for minimizing the time between cutting the car engine to walking away from the vehicle with our fly rod in hand.