Fly Fishing, Fly Casting and Fly Rod Building

Overlining (and Underlining) a Fly Rod

April 12, 2021 3 min read

It's important to know that overlining or underlining a fly rod will not change it’s intrinsic properties. It will, all things being equal, make it bend more or less for a given amount of line out the tip top. Here's the lowdown...

Lessons From A New Zealand Fly Fishing Guide

February 10, 2021 4 min read

Adventure Epicpeople Fly Casting Gear Meet the Epic Crew Tips

As a fly fishing guide working in the South Island of New Zealand our normal clientele would be international anglers - but with the whole world wide pandemic our client base has changed to the domestic market, the Kiwi angler.

How to choose the right fly line fly rod fly fishing

How to choose the right fly line for your fly rod

December 18, 2020 6 min read

Fly Casting Gear Tips

Choosing the right fly line. If there's one piece of fly fishing equipment that causes more confusion than any other it’s fly lines. Or more specifically, what fly line type, brand or taper is best suited to a certain fly rod. It never ceases to amaze me the amount of misunderstanding, misinformation and confusion there is on this subject.

How To Fly Fish for Big Pelagic Pike

December 03, 2020 4 min read

Epicpeople Fiberglass Fly Rod Gear Reviews Tips

Peter Corzilius How To Fly Fish for Big Pelagic Pike, shows off a few amazing pike and shows some of the biggest Pike flies we've ever seen!

5wt 586-6 G Packlight Backpacking Fly Rod

Introducing The New Stealthy G Series Graphene Fly Rods

September 07, 2020 1 min read

Announcements Epic Custom Builds Gear Reviews

The use of Graphene nano resin affords clear performance advantages. 5% Lighter, tougher and more responsive.

Fly Rod Building kits unboxing the epic 370 fly rod building kit

Epic Ready to Wrap Fly Rod Building Kits - Unboxing the Epic 370

June 12, 2020 1 min read

Clips Fiberglass Fly Rod Fly Rod Building Gear

Fly Rod Building with Epic Ambassador Peter Corzilius unboxes the Epic370,3 weight fly rod building kit https://swiftflyfishing.com/collections/fly-rod-building-kits

5 Fly Fishing Lockdown Projects

May 07, 2020 3 min read

Announcements Clips Epicpeople Gear Meet the Epic Crew Music Pics

A bunch fo cool Fly Fishing related things you can do during lockdown

Fly Fishing Fly Rod ratings and Fly Lines

Fly Fishing: Fly Rod Ratings, Fly Line Weights and the Arms Race

February 18, 2020 7 min read

Announcements Gear Tips

At best the term “5 weight’ is used to describe the weight of fly line a given fly rod designer reckons you should be casting on their rod. But with line measurement effectively out the window, things are really starting to go pear shaped here....

Fly Rod Building Wrapping Guides

August 09, 2019 1 min read

Custom Fly Rod Builders Epic Custom Builds Fiberglass Fly Rod Gear Tips

Fly Rod Building - Wrapping Guides. A nice clip from Epic Ambassador Norbert Renaud showing how to wrap our 888 - 8 weight FastGlass fly rod blank

Cutting through the bullshit - The “Mono” Vs Fluoro’ debate. Monofilament vs fluorocarbon

July 30, 2019 4 min read

Gear Reviews

Monofilament vs fluorocarbon.

I believe it’s Lefty that is credited with saying “There’s more bullshit in fly fishing than in a Texas cattle yard” (excuse the French) A phrase that is no more apt than when citing the 'Fluoro vs Mono' discussion.

FiberGlass Fly Rods - From Glass to Back: Coming Full Circle

July 10, 2019 4 min read

Announcements Epic Custom Builds Epic Review Epicpeople Fiberglass Fly Rod Gear Meet the Epic Crew Reviews

The first decent glass fly rod I owned was a vintage brown glass Fenwick. A tad short, a bit stiff, and with a plastic triangular tube that didn’t hold its shape and couldn’t keep its cap, it worked, and fairly well. Next I stepped up to an Orvis Golden Eagle, the last glass fly rod I purchased until just a few years ago. But that’s where it ended as I was swept up by the graphite tide.

Knot Tying Combo Tool Instructions

June 28, 2019 1 min read

Clips Epicpeople Gear Tips

Contrary to popular opinion that strange appendage on your nippers is not for cleaning you fingernails. Epic Ambassador Kunio Finish shows how to tie a nail knot the the Tie-Fast Knot Tool

Monofilament vs fluorocarbon.

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