{"id":12199,"date":"2018-11-21T19:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T18:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/?p=12199"},"modified":"2018-11-20T18:02:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:02:40","slug":"flymen-fishing-co-and-blane-chocklett-announce-signature-game-changer-fly-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flyfishing-blog.com\/flyfishing-blog.com\/2018\/11\/21\/flymen-fishing-co-and-blane-chocklett-announce-signature-game-changer-fly-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Flymen Fishing Co. and Blane Chocklett announce Signature Game Changer Fly Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Flymen Fishing Company and renowned fly designer Blane Chocklett have teamed up to commercially produce a full range of modern Game Changer flies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first two fly designs of the collection, the\u00a0Finesse Changer<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Polar Changer<\/a>, are now available for limited pre-order through Flymen Fishing Co.\u00a0for fly anglers<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0select fly fishing dealers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Flymen Fishing Co. established a specialized fly tying facility earlier this year specifically for commercially producing this line of flies.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\u201cUntil now these next generation Game Changers have not been readily available to the market except from a few private tyers. I am excited that fellow anglers will now have the opportunity to fish and enjoy success with my flies\u201d Said Chocklett.<\/p>\n

Game Changer flies are a distinct style of highly articulated streamer patterns designed and popularized by Blane Chocklett, one of the fly fishing industry\u2019s most forward-thinking and innovative fly designers. The original Game Changer fly has evolved to become a fly design style, not a specific fly pattern, and today Blane ties a variety of Game Changers using different materials to target different species in various fisheries. These flies in their different iterations has caught many different species of fish all over the world from trout to roosterfish.<\/p>\n

Sometimes described as \u2018swimbaits for fly fishermen,\u2019 these lightweight, multi-sectioned flies swim and catch fish like no other fly on the market. Game Changer flies are created using a combination of the\u00a0Fish-Skull\u00ae Articulated Fish-Spine system<\/a>\u00a0and other innovative tying materials to achieve a never-before-possible level of natural swimming movement and realism. \u201cSomething that’s very important to me is to have the flies that I design will fish exactly the way I created them, and my\u00a0signature Changer fly collection<\/a>\u00a0I\u2019m releasing with Flymen are tied to my exact specifications. There\u2019s going to be a lot more to come, but we started with\u00a0two different styles<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0can be fished prominently throughout the water column and can be fished for a wide variety of fresh and saltwater species.\u201d<\/p>\n

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These modern variations of the original fly are significantly lighter, have better movement, are easier to cast and are more effective due to major improvements in fly tying materials and tying techniques in recent years.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Martin Bawden, founder of Flymen Fishing Co., said \u201cFrom the beginning, Flymen Fishing Company has been built on innovative next-generation fly tying materials and fly patterns based on those materials. We first teamed up with Blane several years ago when we worked together to bring the Game Changer fly concept to life by developing the\u00a0Fish-Skull Articulated Fish-Spine<\/a>\u00a0shank system. \u201cThese amazing flies are no longer something that can only be admired from a distance. Our vision is to offer our customers a full family of Game Changer flies designed by Blane Chocklett in the months and years ahead. We are currently producing the\u00a0Finesse Changer<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Polar Changer<\/a>\u00a0with plans to introduce other fly variations such as the Feather Changer, Mega Changer, Bucktail Changer, and others in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blane has similar feelings about Flymen Fishing Co. being a natural pairing. \u201cThe sky’s the limit because Martin, he doesn’t want to do the mundane thing and just do the same thing over and over again. He sees the value in pushing this sport forward and sees where I want to go. \u201cI feel like we’re a good team because we both have that goal of wanting to push the envelope. We want to see where this takes us and I personally, and I’m sure Martin feels the same, I’ve lost a mentor in Lefty and see the mark that he left on the industry and this has been a life project for me. And now I want to leave something. Larry Dahlberg told me a couple years ago, \u2018You don’t stand on people’s coattails, you stand on the shoulders of those who came before you. That’s important because we’re building on the things from Lefty, Clouser, Popovics, Dahlberg, and all these other people I’m not mentioning now. They’ve all built that platform for us to stand on and it’s up to us to start pushing it forward and creating new things and not just creating the same old thing and calling it something else.\u201d<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d like to get your hands on the new\u00a0Game Changer flies<\/a>, you should act fast. They are available for limited pre-order. Game Changer flies are in high demand and they tend to sell out quickly. These are specialized, custom-tied flies that are technically difficult and time consuming to tie to the correct specifications. As a result, the Flymen factory sometimes cannot produce them fast enough and if not in stock can be\u00a0pre-ordered<\/a>\u00a0on a first-in first-out basis. Fly fishing dealers can place\u00a0pre-season requests to carry this line of flies<\/a>\u00a0on the Flymen Fishing Co. website.<\/p>\n

You can learn more about Blane Chocklett in his\u00a0recent interview with Flymen Fishing Co.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Flymen Fishing Company and renowned fly designer Blane Chocklett have teamed up to commercially produce a full range of modern Game Changer flies. The first two fly designs of the collection, the\u00a0Finesse Changer\u00a0and the\u00a0Polar Changer, are now available for limited pre-order through Flymen Fishing Co.\u00a0for fly anglers\u00a0and\u00a0select fly fishing dealers.     \u201cUntil now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2076,3236,2077,2364,12,581,2588],"class_list":["post-12199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product-news","tag-blane","tag-changer","tag-chocklett","tag-collection","tag-fly","tag-flymen","tag-signature"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t