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Spotlight on Materials | The Lowdown on Graphene

September 30, 2020 / 10264
As a highly specialized and engineering-oriented blank manufacturer, we often get asked about materials, and what are truly the best fabrics for making blanks. A number of you have asked about graphene lately - here's the lowdown. Graphene... Continue reading
Indian Summer at Salza River
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Indian Summer at Salza River

January 3, 2020 / 6785
Günter Feuerstein | December 2019 Although nymph fishing is my true passion, I like to switch to the dry fly as soon as larger fish show up at the surface. Dry fly fishing is especially beautiful when in... Continue reading
Renato Vitalini | V Stick Custom Fly Rods
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Fly Rod Builder Renato Vitalini: V-Stick Custom Fly Rods

November 11, 2019 / 9921
Jono Winnel | 11 November 2019 Renato may be the happiest man alive. Rarely serious and often with a glass of wine in hand. Content and living his best life. And why shouldn’t he? He lives in a... Continue reading
Sanibel Island Fly Fishing
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Marooned on Sanibel Island

October 1, 2019 / 10744
Drew Chicone | 1 October 2019 Planning a trip to Sanibel ... here's what you need to bring, and a few tips that will help you close the deal on persnickety beach snook. As a local bird here... Continue reading
Swedish Baltic Salmon
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Year of the Salmon: Finding Baltic Silver

September 3, 2019 / 6502
3 September 2019 | Jono Winnel The hire van rolls up at the airport, the roller door slides open and I am greeted by familiar faces ready with big hugs and goofy grins. Pre fishing trip giddiness is... Continue reading
Fine Tackle | Christian Hörgren
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Fly Rod Builder Christian Hörgren – Fine Tackle

January 16, 2019 / 9345
16 January 2019 | Jono Winnel You can find Christian Hörgren’s fly rod building studio on one of the many islands that form the city of Stockholm, Sweden. It’s not far from the Town Hall where the Nobel... Continue reading
CTS Affinity X | Exmouth
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Exploring Exmouth

November 13, 2018 / 8606
Despite being born in an Alpine country I was infected with the saltwater fly fishing virus about two decades ago. I have been travelling to numerous destinations around the globe since, always in search of the irresistible turquoise... Continue reading

The Material Selection

November 13, 2018 / 8460
What are your older (even vintage) fishing rods made of, and what do we use nowadays? In the second blog of our CTS tech series, we're taking a look at fishing rod blank materials. The earliest fishing rods were... Continue reading
CTS Rod Designer Stephen Pratt
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Modulus & Strength Explained

September 13, 2018 / 13917
Welcome to the first of our series of CTS blogs focused on something we're pretty hooked on: Technology. It's changed the face of fishing and rod design, and it's what we live and breathe at CTS. When the... Continue reading
Fly Fishing Swedish Lapland | CTS New Zealand
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Swedish Arctic / Lapland – Summer 2018

September 13, 2018 / 5557
It must’ve been close to midnight, though I couldn’t be sure. We had been fishing all day and I hadn’t checked the time once. The sun won’t set and there was nothing to stop us from fishing. There’s... Continue reading
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