Trouts Fly Fishing

Simms Fishing Products - New Products for 2011

Simms has historically been recognized for developing the most advanced and highest quality products for anglers. The Simms Spring 2011 line continues this tradition featuring products designed for all fishing segments – from fresh to salt and tarmac to drift boat.

Simms Waders offer the broadest ranges of styles and sizes for every angler. 2011 brings a new Special Edition in the G3 Guide™ model and an expansion of Custom Shop options and sizes.

There is a lot going on in the Footwear category. Highlights of the 9 new and updated boots and shoes are:

• RiverTek™ BOA® Boot – Simms has developed a new wading boot featuring the BOA® Lacing System; this boot is the ultimate in CleanStream™ design.
• Our updated Freestone® Boot offers a more durable boot with a rubberized toe and heel at the same fantastic price!
• Simms is introducing three GORE-TEX® footwear pieces for 2011: the Pursuit GORE-TEX® Shoe Mid and Low and the Harbor GORE-TEX® Shoe, all designed for wear on and off the water. All three shoes feature a GORE-TEX membrane, Vibram outsoles – originally designed for use by the US Navy on carrier ships – and OrthoLite memory foam sockliners for superior comfort.
• Mariner Shoe is the finest made amphibious sneaker for boats and skiffs.
• RipRap Shoe & StreamTread™ Sandal – you asked for them and Simms delivers…a shoe and sandal featuring Simms StreamTread™ sole with Vibram technology. Both can accept Simms HardBite™ Studs and Star Cleats.
• Zipit Bootie! A new price-point bootie that will be the answer for float tubes, kayaks and saltwater wading.

We’ll have all these new offerings, plus any other amazing items Simms will have for the 2011 season, as soon as they’re available.  We’ll be seeing all these products and more next week, so be sure and stay tuned for future updates.

Trout’s Logo Hat Contest Entry | Roaring Fork Brown Trout

Kristian Lichtenfels with a dandy Roaring Fork Jim Brown.  Apparently he and Adam Barbour had a killer day floating the Fork with many nice browny’s to hand.  Hey Adam, where’s your Trout’s Hat?

Grasshoppers Don’t Always Have to be Served On Top

Glancing over each row of my fly box, I search for that pattern that alludes the confidence in both my mind and in appearance.  I have already gone through numerous variations of adult mayflies, stones, hoppers and drakes, yet to no avail.  I am reminded and humbled by the often overlooked complexities of summer fishing; with all the available food sources, it can sometimes be a formidable challenge to determine what the trout are keying in on.  There are those days when you have the right fly on and the fishing can be absolutely lights out.  Then there are those days when no matter what you try, the fish just don’t want anything to do with what’s on the end of your line.  The latter being how my day is seeming to go.  It is at these times that I often find myself trying to think outside the box, and conjure up a strategy that might entice a trout to say “what the hell, I’ll give that interesting looking morsel a try”.

It is at this moment as I stand on the river’s edge that I locate the solution to my fly query, a drowned grasshopper.  Being a new fly in the shop as well as my fly box, I am not sure how exactly to fish this unique pattern.  With the look of a dry fly, but the weight of a large nymph, the applications of this fly are not  totally clear.  But with little apparent surface action, and no hits on any of the dry flies I had presented to these finicky trout, I seemed only natural to go deep.  A few minutes later my creation is complete, a three fly nymph rig consisting of a size 12 stonefly, a small caddis pupa, and 18″ behind that my secret weapon; Takahashi’s Drowned Hopper.

Now I’ll be totally honest that as I cast my line to the head of the run, I had little hope that this method was going to actually work.  So it was to my astonishment that as my flies passed next to a large submerged rock that my indicator went down in a manor that suggested one thing, FISH ON!  Four jumps, 2 runs and 5 minutes later I had in my hands the largest brown trout of my season; a beautiful male with a hook jaw to boot.

So the next time you find yourself on the side of river, perplexed by what fly to tie on next, think outside the box and you too may be rewarded with an unexpected surprise.