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In about six weeks I'll be making a trip to Palometa Club and this video posted from a recent Tailwaters Fly Fishing Co. trip has got me stoked.



Visit The Palometa Club website for more information on this permit (and beyond) destination.

At best, I'm a grade B trout angler.  Being a self taught fly fishing hack who learned on foam spiders and bluegills while working at a summer camp outside of Grayling, Michigan, it took me a full summer of slapping the water before driving across the street to the Au Sable River to fly fish for trout.  Many more years of learning the hard way on rivers all over Michigan and Colorado taught me a lot but never enough to be truly great with trout.  Now most of my time is divided between warmwater and saltwater fly fishing with a handful of trout trips to keep things interesting.  I still have a lot to learn. 

I'm saying all of this to admit fully that my trout game needs help and Tom Rosenbauer's latest book, Fly Fishing For Trout: The Next Level, is a complete primer for the novice to advanced angler to hone and freshen up on their skills.  More than once, when it really counted on a trout stream with precise casts to sipping trout, I've come up short.  I clearly needed more practice and Tom's voice (from reading this book) whispering in my ear.


Fly Fishing For Trout is 160 pages that packed with knowledge starting with how trout feed to reading the water to hatches and how trout rise to them to three full chapters on fly selection through the seasons.  Tom's expertise clearly comes into play and I learned quite a bit from reading (and rereading) this book over the past couple of weeks.  The photography and illustrations are excellent as well and this soft cover book is one for every angler's library.

Tom's clearly working in the future as this book as it has sixteen different videos that can be accessed through scanning the QR code which go a long ways to illustrate the focus of the chapter.  Each video is up to two minutes long and clarifies points in the book that are best shown through film instead of just words on the page. 


Need more information?  Enjoy this short video with Tom Rosenbauer as he explains why he wrote this book. I like that he reminds everyone that fly fishing is supposed to be fun. Don't forget that.


Look for Fly Fishing For Trout: The Next Level at your local bookstore or fly shop or online  on Amazon or Orvis websites.  I have a short list of friends that will be getting a copy soon as a gift.

It's kind of fitting that the same week that Bell's Brewery released the first batch of Oberon for the summer season that Vince Huttley of Tailor Made By V. Huttley would get back in the shop for an update on "The Lucky 7" fly reels.

Since the last update, Vince has had some life changes but he's back in the shop with enthusiasm to get this project finished up and I'm ready to have one of these in my hands soon.  

If this is the first post you've seen of this project, then get caught up HERE, HERE, and HERE.


Vince wrote...  "I've had a slow few months with the new addition to the family and the new day job consuming most of my time.  As for progress, all the aluminum parts have been returned from anodizing and the fit out starts.  I will let the photos explain most of these steps.  Machining all the screws, bushes, axles for these from brass is fairly time consuming as tolerances need to be quite tight.  After all the bits are made, it's just assembling all parts and fine tuning the reel to make sure there's no rubbing and all is aligned.  The next step is to create the wooden fly boxes."
















All "Lucky 7" fly reels are spoken for, but that doesn't mean that you still can't follow along with the latest shop news on the Tailor Made By V. Huttley website as well as Facebook and Instagram too.