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This is where we are going to tell you about out past, and how our novel and practical designs endeared us to exprienced anglers who could appreciate the virtues. How this foundation led to Umpqua, the largest fly vendor on the planet, exclusively distributing our line for three years..Which in turn has lead us to this, Rising 2.0. New machines, new faces, new website, new focus on not only designing products that improve your fishing experience but also making thos eproducts ourselves in-house. Thank you is really in order to all of you who are reading this, and the thousands more who have purchased one of our products. It is this support that has allowed us to go out and augment our shop with solid metal working machines from the 70's retrofitted with modern controllers and digital read outs. With these machines we can be self sufficient, and you can be guaranteed that our gear will be superior in every respect to everything else on the market - er.. except maybe those few items made at machine shops with more experience than us as we know we have a lot to learn and are relying on passion and drive to get us through.. That said, you can be damn sure that what we make is vastly superior to anything made in India, Pakistan, China, Thailand, Vietnam, etc, etc.. 

  • The Fly Shop - 2013 Catalog

    The Fly Shop just sent out their 2013 catalog! We are honored to have over a dozen products featured - including many of our new aluminum tying tools, new flask pack in digital camo, and a special pair of Bobs Tactical Croc pliers in 7" length.. Check it out

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    Great Gink & Gasoline post about preventing fish death when releasing

    Kent & Louis have an excellent, informative website - ginkandgasonline.com - I check it out almost every day and always enjoy what they post. Since I am finally postingI thought should include a link to this great article...Selfishly would have liked to see a shout out the to Rising Lippa4Life, but guess have to send them some for "review," before I expect that. Enjoy - Dylan

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  • 2012 - Tradeshow WINNER

    BEST CHEST PACK/VEST Award Winner at Fly Fishing Retailer Show ! This is second straight win for the flask pack ! Feels great to know that our retail partners appreciate pragmatic, form follows function design over anything else out there. 

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  • 2011 Tradeshow - WINNER

    New Orleans for the Fly Fishing Retailer Trade Show - thanks to all the dealers who voted our Flask Pack Best Check Pack/Vest. We are excited to win the award with our new, pragmatic design.

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  • NEW (to us anyway) CNC Knee Mill & Engine Lathe

    First BIG step towards making our design in-house has been achieved ! Excellent used machines have been located, purchased, and brought back to our new shop in Salt Lake City.

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