Flylords Mag

Loop is a brand that’s not as familiar to American anglers because they’ve largely sold their gear in the European market. You could get their rods here in the States, but only at a handful of dealers. Now, the company offers direct-to-consumer access, and one of their latest entries into the field is the new Trak series of rods.

Lahontan cutthroat trout are synonymous with Pyramid Lake in Nevada, the slightly salty body of freshwater that was home to the world-record cutthroat (a 41-pound fish caught in 1925), and more recently, plenty of fish tipping the scales past 20 pounds.

But Pyramid Lake is only part of this fish’s native range. Historically, they were present in Lake Tahoe and the ...

When you’re used to fly fishing in the bubbling riffles, foam-covered pools, and easy-to-see buckets and pockets of small streams, going to fish a big river can feel intimidating. Like a barren desert made of water, all the obvious flow changes and fishy-looking structure you see on smaller streams and creeks are missing from large waterways, replaced with a seemingly endless...

Alex Stulce and I launched the boat a bit after 9 a.m., slipping into a stretch of river that neither of us had ever fished before. It’s a piece of one of the West’s most famous fisheries, but there’s little-to-no information about this particular section online. As Alex observed, that’s either a good or bad thing.

It’s not often that I go into a day of fishing – e...