Survey - How big of fly are you willing to fish?

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In recent years I've spent much time experimenting with fly size. Not just for fish response but casting effort as well. What I've found is bigger doesn't always mean harder to cast. Other factors effect casting effort are, weight, wind resistance, and profile.

Like I find weighted clouser minnows fairly easy to cast despite the lead eye weight. It's got to be the slim profile and the fact that deer hair doesn't adsorb water adding additional weight. The original game changer fly was next to impossible to cast but the newer feather game changer version is quite easy to handle.

I've also noticed over the years that the more popular stinger / shank type steelhead patterns focus on creating large silhouettes with minimal materials thus creating a fly that appears bigger without the added bulk to slow down your cast.

This survey is just for fun. We really just want to hear your opinions. Are you "going big or go home" or are you limiting yourself to dry fly fishing.

Results of this survey will be posted in about a month from now over on our dedicated Survey Page. Here you can find past survey results as well

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February Survey - Do You Tie Flies

Do You Tie Your Own Flies? Take Survey

Maybe I am just more aware of it but it seems to me that more anglers are tying their own flies today. Whether it be for personal satisfaction, commercially unavailable patterns or self created unique patterns. 

This question came to mind when I was ripping out a couple patterns for an upcoming fishing adventure. The patterns I tie are nothing amazing special but to the best of my knowledge the exact detail does not exist in a commercial tied fly. I also get a great deal of satisfaction knowing that I have my own hand in tying them. By no means would I take credit for creating this particular fly pattern but I still get to customize the way I like it and doing so gives me an extra edge of confidence in it. Seems to be effective because these particular flies will account for much of my catch. 

I don't tie all my own flies. Some I tie are completely my own unique patterns and I keep them pretty much to myself. Some flies I tie because the commercially available ones are so generic I have no confidence in them. I also tie a few patterns because simply they are not commercially available. 

I get a lot of confidence from tying my own flies. It's a great feeling when you get that tug on your pattern. It also gives me the ability to customize the flies to specific water types and seasonal stream flows. 

The goal of this survey is to find out a percentage of anglers tying their own. We look forward to the results and as always they can be immediately after taking the survey and we will summarize and post the results about a month from now on our Survey Page. Our survey page also contains the results of all our past surveys. 

Thanks for participating,

Greg Darling 

Gorge Fly Shop Internet Sales Manager | Product Specialist

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New Brands Survey

Survey - What Brand(s) would you like us to carry?

The future begins now

The Gorge Fly Shop Team is looking forward in 2014. Thanks to all of you we've had many successful years and have never stopped growing. We have put together this survey to ask you what brands or products do you have interest in. With so many choices it's virtually impossible to carry all fly fishing gear. We would like to make sure we're not missing something. This past year we added Kast Gear, Nomad nets and Flyvines. 

Below is a list that we have compiled and by no means it it all inclusive. You also have an option to write in a brand or product that we have missed. You can make additional comments about current, past or possible new fly fishing gear. We value your input and thank you for sharing your passion of fly fishing with us. 

Thank you...Gorge Fly Shop Team 

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