Fly-fishing News: Top Hunting Knives, G. Loomis Craftsmen and Muddy Creek’s Revival

Fly-fishing News: Top Hunting Knives, G. Loomis Craftsmen and Muddy Creek’s Revival 

FlyLords takes a deep dive into the Benchmade Knife Company’s Water collection in the highly competitive outdoor knife category: “These knives are incredibly durable. Between using the blades as impromptu screwdrivers when the situations called for it (which, embarrassingly, it has multiple times) to being forgotten on waders/bibs and tossed around in mud and rain in the back of a truck bed, we have yet to find a circumstance unforgiving enough to bend or break one of these knives.”

GearJunkie reviews the Best Hunting Knives of 2024: “The knife should hold an edge or be easily field sharpened. It should fit well in the hand to protect the user from accidental injury. And a good hunting knife is usually stout enough to crack bone.”

The “Feel Connected” fly rod series from G. Loomis Rods. If you ever wondered how fly rods are painstakingly constructed and finished, this series looks at the people and hours behind the process: Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3.

Guide Logan Hurn from Wyoming’s North Platte River talks about the keys to hooking and landing big fish: 1. Use 8-pound fluorocarbon 2. Fish heavier rods (6-weights or bigger) to play fish quickly 3. “Don’t lead the fish up-river on the hook set,” which pulls the fly out of the fish’s mouth–anglers should always set the hook downstream.

Frying Pan River guide Beck Brooks talks about twitching dries for uber picky trout: “Make your flies skate or dance after a few dead-drift refusals…”

Muddy Creek water management: “Trout Unlimited and partners such as Wyoming Game and Fish, and the Bureau of Land Management, have been restoring vital habitat for Colorado River cutthroat trout in Muddy Creek, Wyoming. The basin is home to four native fish species…”