News: Best of show awards in Reno

By Skip Clement, publisher of Fly Life Magazine.com

[dropcap]S[/dropcap]adly, not one of or our editors made it to Reno for the Fly Tackle Dealers Show. I went north to fish with Andrew Derr, Fly Life’s field editor; tackling some of his “hidden” spots for blues and a few stripers still showing up on the right tides, and Don Reed, fly tying editor, headed west for some “long overdue” trout fly fishing.

However, the show, we’ve been told, had a great deal more energy than usual and there was a lot of order taking going on.

For those of you who also didn’t make the show, here’s some new “gear” to think about. [read more]

Visit your local fly shop and find out what’s worth looking at.

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