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Simms finally bringing wet wading boots, loads more, to market

Simms outs its new 2015-16 product additions

by Chad Shmukler - Tuesday, Jul 14th, 2015

Photo: Chad Shmukler

I've been pissing and moaning for years about the lack of a wet-wading dedicated boot on the market. Given the vast swaths of anglers that ditch their waders as soon as the weather and water get warm enough, it has long seemed like a market vacancy in need of filling. Yet we've been told otherwise — there's no demand, they won't sell, no one wants them — in conversations with almost every wading boot manufacturer out there (including Simms). But thankfully, either the market has changed or Simms is trying to change it.

RIO announces army of new lines, products for 2016

New lines, leaders, tippet and other products from RIO

by Chad Shmukler - Thursday, Jul 9th, 2015

Striper anglers will have three new InTouch striper lines to choose from (photo: Chad Shmukler).

Last week RIO introduced its new InTouch Single Hand Spey line as the first addition to its 2016 lineup. Today, RIO has followed up by announcing a bevy of other new lines and other products, which will join the InTouch Single Hand spey line in RIO's refreshed and seemingly ever-expanding list of offerings.

Airflo continues two-hand trout line expansion with release of Super-DRI Switch

Still more good news for two-hand casting trout and small stream anglers

by Chad Shmukler - Tuesday, Jul 7th, 2015

Testing grounds for the Airflo Super-DRI Switch.

A few months ago we got a chance to talk about a couple of two-handed casting lines that we first got a chance to tinker with over a year ago, but whose design was only recently finalized by Airflo and line designer Tom Larimer.

Not much lost in translation

Steelheading on Cape Cod

by Chad Shmukler - Monday, Jul 6th, 2015

This average-sized striped bass leveraged Cape Cod's feverish rip currents to deliver the only backing run of the day (photo: Chad Shmukler).

"It's nice to have someone in the boat who knows what mending is," Jamie says and I'm momentarily puzzled at the idea of anyone but a true first time angler not knowing what mending is. After learning the most basic of casting skills, mending is perhaps the first thing a trout angler learns. Most presentations made on a flowing stream don't work without a mend, making it an essential skill. But then I quickly remember that we're floating on saltwater, and push aside my bias that compels me to assume that all fly anglers begin as trout fishermen.

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