Tag: t-shirt

Posted on by — Leave a comment

Pre-Spring Fly Fishing

On Sunday we went out to the only mountain river I have been to this winter, the South Platte in Cheesman Canyon. The good news is that I was able to use my new rod and reel and try out some streamers I tied up. The bad news is that I need to learn how to use these big ole flies. I know that tiny midges are usually the name of the game in this heavily-fished tailwater, but I wanted to try my luck with streamers for a couple of reasons. Number one, I just got a new Redington CPX rod with the Lamson Konic reel and wanted to fish with the new set up. It’s fun using new gear, right?? Number two, the last time I went to Cheesman, I went with my buddies Jason and Esteban and Jason caught a couple using Rapalas. So I thought, “I’ll just tie up some streamers and slay ’em!” WRONG. Those fish saw my streamers and (in an English accent) were like “This old chap has to be mad. We are a civilized bunch. We don’t eat fillet o’ fish. We eat caviar and petite midges.” Needless to say I didn’t have a bite. How did Jason and Esteban do you ask? Esteban also got a case of the skunk flu. And of course Jason, with his trusty Rapala, was able to bring in two nice browns.

My shirt didn’t help my skunk.
Me And My Skunk

Jason likes to show off.
Jason's Brown

Posted on by — Leave a comment

Black Friday Sale


*******Cyber Monday Special*******
In addition to the weekend savings of 25% off when spending $35, if you spend $15 you will get 15% off! That’s for those of you who just want a single item.
*********************************

Everyone’s looking for a sale this weekend and we have just the sale for you. From Friday to Monday if you spend $35 or more, we’ll take 25% off your shopping cart total. So if you buy our new Troutstache t-shirt and a Colorado Cap, normally you’d be paying $36. But with this sale your cost is only $27! Check out all our fly gear and cash in on some sweet savings!!

Posted on by — Leave a comment

Sticker Picture – Free T-Shirt Contest

Would you like a chance at winning a free t-shirt? Have we sent you one of our free or premium stickers? If your answer is yes to both, then just one more step and you could win! Send us a picture of where you stuck one of our fly stickers and we’ll enter you into a drawing for our soon-to-be-released shirt. Email your picture to joe@theflytrout.com and you’re entered in the giveaway.

Posted on by — 1 Comment

Let’s get caught up

I haven’t been able to write a post in a couple weeks now and thought it was about time. If you follow me on instagram, the these pictures may look familiar to you.

Spring is here and the flowers are blooming!

Pretty Flower

The weekend before last was cold and rainy so we had to come up with some indoor activities like fly tying class.

Fly Tying Class

Some of the finished flies with a sweet looking sticker.

Fly Sticker

Drowning my sorrows because I can’t go fly fishing.

Drowning my sorrows

Printed a special edition too cool for school shirt for a graduation present.

Graduation Present

And finally we hit the local pond to catch us some bluegills. No fish, but it was nice to get out and start teaching the little guy how to use a fly rod!

Evening Bluegill Skunk
Posted on by — 1 Comment

An action packed day

Yesterday was action packed. First my free stickers went a little viral. I had been offering them for about a month and I have been sending out a couple a day. But yesterday a couple web sites posted that I had free stickers and my site was slammed. I had to turn off the order form because I didn’t have enough stickers to send out.

Free Stickers

Then I went fly fishing after work for a little bit and had a few hookups, but was only able to land one little brown. Seeing my shadow on the creek means that winter is over right?

Shadow on the creek

When I got home from my short fishing trip there were two packages waiting for me. The new family tent and my sweet new Allen Fly Fishing reel.

New Tent
New Allen Reel

Next, I had some shirts I needed to print and get packaged to ship out.

Catch Ya Later

I had some delicious deep dish pizza from Jimano’s Pizzeria. This was especially good because it was half off!

Deep Dish Pizza

And to finish the day I decided to tie up a couple flies for Sunday (because Saturday is yard work day).

Tying Flies

 

 

Posted on by — Leave a comment

Magical Mustache or Lucky T-Shirt

I have been out on the water just a handful of times thus far in 2012, and up until yesterday I hadn’t caught a fish. Each time I would say the cliche lines like “A bad day of fishing is better than a good day at work.” or “It’s nice to just be in the outdoors.” We all know that those are mostly true statements, but the point of fishing is to catch freaking fish! And yesterday was the day to break my skunky streak. I took the family to the Chatfield Gravel Pond, which is a medium-sized pond right next to Chatfield Reservoir.

I wasn’t quite sure what fly I was going to use so I started of with a wooly bugger. After a few casts, I started to see a few occasional risers. I immediately switched to a comparadun because nothing beats watching a fish take your dry fly sitting on top! The fish were definitely not going crazy on the top of the lake, but I knew if I was patient I would get one. And sure enough, BAM! He took my fly and I set the hook. He wasn’t much of a fighter but it was still nice to get my first trout of the year. The wife and kids weren’t having any luck with their bait and lure fishing and were ready to leave even though everyone knows “you never walk away from the table when you’re on a heater.”

I’m not sure if it was fishing with the family or the too cool for school shirt I was wearing or my sweet stache, but something helped me break my no fish streak. I’ll give credit to the shirt. I only caught one and he was definitely too cool for school.

Comparadun

Image 1 of 6

Posted on by — 7 Comments

T-Shirt Giveaway


For our first t-shirt giveaway, we are having a drawing for your choice of Too Cool for School, The Fly Trout Logo Tee, or Catch Ya Later.

How to enter:

  • Follow @theflytrout and tweet the following: I just entered to win a FREE t-shirt from @theflytrout http://theflytrout.com/2011/12/t-shirt-giveaway/ #TheFlyTrout
  • Like us on Facebook and post on our wall: I want to win a t-shirt from The Fly Trout http://theflytrout.com/2011/12/t-shirt-giveaway/
  • Comment on this blog post which of the three shirts you would choose if you win

That’s it! Three EASY ways to be entered! You have up to 3 ways to be entered! Duplicate tweets and facebook posts will not be counted. However, if you do all three of the above items, you will be entered THREE times!

Official Rules
Must enter via one of the 3 ways mentioned above
Giveaway starts December 12th, 2011
Giveaway ends December 24th, 2011
Winner announced December 25, 2011
Winner gets to choose Too Cool for School, The Fly Trout Logo Tee, or Catch Ya Later
Winner must respond within 24 hours or another winner will be picked

BONUS
If we get 100 twitter followers and 100 facebook likers we will give away an extra shirt. So make sure to tell all your friends!!