Grayling

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,… [Lire la suite]

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… [Lire la suite]

After testing the Nymphmaniac 10’ #3, we decided to keep exploring the Nymphmaniac series developed for modern nymphing techniques with the… [Lire la suite]

After introducing several Vision models from the Nymphmaniac series, let's move on to the top-range XO series dedicated to all fly fishing techniques. The first XO presented is a classic 9 '# 5 for dryfly fishing and sight fishing :

Scotland is worldwide famous for its whiskies, Nessie, its castles (sometimes haunted), the kilt, Harry Potter for the youngest and, for us, fly fishermen, its renowned salmon rivers. But it is also an excellent destination for trout fishing and… [Lire la suite]

It’s 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday 26th of June and we started to drive 7 hours earlier with my mate Olivier, heading north from Stockholm airport. The quick meal at the… [Lire la suite]