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Author: Damon Matus

Gear Review: Umpqua ZS2 Overlook Chest Pack

October 17, 2021October 10, 2021 Damon Matus

This is a combination post, offering a gear review and some of the modifications and configurations I’ve adopted after using the Umpqua ZS2 Overlook pack for almost two seasons. I’ve gone back and forth between chest packs and minimalist approaches to carrying my gear. I like the concept of a chest pack; fly boxes and

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Brown Trout,Gear maintenance,Gear reviews4 Comments

Infrared Stream Thermometer

July 21, 2021July 20, 2021 Damon Matus

I ventured out on a hot June evening, three days into an official heat wave, rigged for dries. I found another angler in the spot I intended to fish and we struck up a conversation on the bank. “Nothing showing,” he said. I aimed my infrared thermometer at the water and was surprised to see

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Brook Trout,Brown Trout,Gear reviews,Gift ideas,Rainbow Trout,Warm water8 Comments

Rich Strolis’s ‘Shucked-up Emerger’

June 25, 2021June 18, 2021 Damon Matus

There’s no shortage of fly pattern tutorial videos these days.  Many of them are an impressive display of the fly tyer’s art, but one has to wonder if some of them actually catch fish.  I get on a creative streak from time to time, whipping up experimental patterns that look great but most of them

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Brook Trout,Brown Trout,Flies and fly tying,Hendricksons,How to start,Rainbow Trout1 Comment

At the Bench: Organization

March 10, 2021March 5, 2021 Damon Matus

It’s March, but right now it’s 18 degrees with a 22 mph wind out of the northwest; perfect fly tying weather. I’ve had an enjoyable tying season so far, filling boxes with old reliables and some new stuff.  Whether I’m in production mode with a list of patterns to tie, or tinkering with experimentals, it’s

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