Native Fly Fishing, new and unique french manufacturer ! 2025-09-22 | T-and-Co In fly fishing news, 2025 will surely be a landmark year with the arrival of rods that are designed, developed, and manufactured entirely in France — more precisely, in Ariège, down the Pyrénées montains. That’s where Pierre Lavignotte, manager of...
Review : Native Anthem 11' #2 et 11' #3 2025-09-22 | T-and-Co French brand Native hit the market in the last 5 years with its match-nymphing rods (french technique). In 2025, the brand enters the fly fishing market with a big challenge : manufacture its own fly blanks and rods in its headquarters, in the South...
Review : Diamondback Ideal Nymph 10'10" 2wt 2022-09-26 | T-and-Co The year 2022 has been marked by a milestone in Joe Goodspeed’s career. After having brilliantly conceived the Euro Nymphing rods Contact and Contact II for Thomas & Thomas, Joe now uses his talent for another American firm: DiamondBack. The...
Review : Thomas & Thomas Contact II 10'9 #2 2022-02-27 | T-and-Co Over the years, the Thomas & Thomas Contact II series has established itself as one of the benchmarks for modern nymphing rods. We couldn’t resist to inspect and try the very last 10’9 #2.
Andrew Wading Boots Review : Creek and Fly 2020-10-21 | T-and-Co You already know, at Trout & co, we particularly like objectivity in any circumstances. And when it is a matter of wading gear, we decided to test everything on the long run to push its limit. We open this series of review with the Wading Boots...
Review : Vision XO GRAPHENE 9'7 5wt, 10'3 and 11'4 3wt 2020-09-03 | T-and-Co Vision’s rods trigger many numbers of articles those days. After making an impression with the very successful series of the Nymphmaniac already presented on Trout and Co, the Scandinavian brand evolves its high end in 2020 with rods made of very...
Review : Thomas & Thomas Contact II 10' 2wt 2020-07-27 | T-and-Co After the success of its Contact series dedicated to euronymphing approaches, the famous American brand Thomas & Thomas continued to work to improve the existing models. That’s how the Contact II was born, in a desire to optimise the Contact...
2020 10' 3wt fly rod Shootout 2020-07-23 | T-and-Co In the modern nymphing technique, the 10’ #3 is the most standard fly rod used for white-water fishing. This kind of rod gives you a perfect control of the drift but also enough reactivity for dry fly fishing. They are particularly multipurpose and...
Review : Cortland MKII 10'6 3wt and 11' 3wt 2020-03-23 | T-and-Co After testing the 2wt references, we decided to keep exploring the MKII series developed for modern nymphing techniques with the #3 models :
Review : Vision Nymphmaniac 11' 3wt 2020-03-17 | T-and-Co After testing the Nymphmaniac 10’ #3, we decided to keep exploring the Nymphmaniac series developed for modern nymphing techniques with the longest model : the Vision Nymphmaniac 11’ #3.
