Geartalk

Welcome to The Rising

Thoughts on the culture of fly fishing from a Gen Z angler.

Proper positioning–fishing with your feet–is an important part of skillful fly presentation.

You can’t put these rods in your fly shop. You can’t sell them online. You’d be insane to turn one over to a client in your drift boat…

Fly lines can be pretty damn expensive these days, but they are undeniably the jet fuel that makes the planes fly.

The term “tracking” is used to describe the quality of a rod to remain in a single plane as it is moved through the casting stroke.

Talking about oversized heads (no, not talking about casting instructors or magazine editors) and fast-action graphite fly rods.

The water always tells us what our options are.

The majority of the rods made today are generally too stiff for their intended use…

Travel, especially international, will be as hot as the stock market...

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