I’ve been lucky enough to get into a bit of saltwater fly fishing over the last ten years, both overseas and here at home in New Zealand. Coming from a trout background, it’s opened up a whole new can of worms—not only with the fishing itself, but with fly tying as well. Suddenly there are new hooks, new materials and completely different styles of flies to get your head around. It really is a whole new ball game. For the last three years, bucktail alone has kept me pretty oc

It’s pretty hard to believe that we’re coming up on 10 years. What started as a fairly simple plan to avoid spending all winter tying flies for my summer guiding has somehow morphed into something much bigger than we ever imagined. Our first shipment of flies arrived with no warehouse, no fancy systems and certainly no grand plan for where it might all lead. The flies were stored in shoeboxes on the hallway floor, and in those early days we were ordering patterns in lots of 1