Pete's New Flies Have Landed

There are moments in business that feel big. This is one of them.

Pete’s newest flies with Fulling Mill have officially landed at Spawn — and if you’ve followed our journey from the early days of tying in the garage to building Spawn Fly Fish into what it is today, you know this didn’t happen by accident.

A Track Record Built on Skill — Not Hype

We’ve written before about Pete’s tying — the late nights at the vise, the obsessive material testing, the refusal to release anything that doesn’t flat-out produce. In past blogs, we’ve said it plainly:

Pete’s skill stacks up against any tier anywhere in the world. You might not read about him in a magazine or see him at national fly fishing shows but he's the backbone of this company, brand, and community. 

That’s not hometown bias. That’s the result of thousands of hours on the water and a billion hours on the vise. It’s understanding movement. Profile. Sink rate. Durability. It’s knowing when a fly needs one more strand of flash — and when it needs less.

These new colorways are another testament to that standard.

The original Rocktober Caddis was purpose-built. It was designed to solve a specific problem on specific fisheries. It did that — and then some. It flat out hunted.

Now, with expanded colors, its reach is broader. Different water tones. Different light. Different prey profiles. Same movement. Same confidence.

And the Beach Bum? The new colors aren’t cosmetic. They expand the fisheries this fly can dominate — from sea-runs to salmon to warmwater species.

This isn’t expansion for expansion’s sake. It’s calculated.

A Bigger Vision for Spawn

Here’s the part that matters long term.

Spawn has a goal: increase Spawn.

That doesn’t mean just adding SKUs. It means building something that represents the patterns we actually fish. The flies we trust. The flies that live on our YouTube channel. The flies that have hundreds of fish stories behind them.

We don’t take that lightly.

Materials built this company. Spawn Heads. Spawn Dub. Polliwog Tails. Jigs Shanks. Football Beads. But flies? Flies are part of the future.

Walk into our shop someday and we want the bins loaded — not with generic filler — but with our patterns. The ones we fish. The ones we teach. The ones we’ve refined over seasons of trial and error.

We have hundreds of unique patterns in our arsenal. Some you’ve seen online. Some you haven’t.

And yes — more Fulling Mill drops are rumored to be coming.

This Is Momentum

What you’re seeing right now is proof of concept.

From a small-town vise to a global platform with Fulling Mill — that doesn’t happen without real performance behind it. And eventually? The bins will reflect the full vision.

We’re just getting started.

— Spawn Fly Fish