-
Changing River Levels(Post)
How many trips have people taken in the past where changing river levels interferes with your fly fishing trip? My last trip to Alaska is a good example of this. I had been fly fishing for five day ...
Safe Catch & Release Techniques(Post)My friend and fellow fly fishing guide just sent me a picture in an email titled: "How to Hold a Fish." The title was obviously written with a good deal of sarcasm. The poor trout has bulging eyes, i ...
Get ‘Em on the Reel(Post)Raise you hand if you’re guilty of having too much line out, hook what you think is a big fish, reel like hell to play the fish on the reel, only to screw around too much, not pay attention to what ...
King Salmon on the FLY in Alaska!(Post)Great year for fishing king salmon in Alaska once again. Every year calls for different river conditions, this year the water stayed low with no big rains to raise or muddy the water. We fished mor ...
If at first you don’t succeed, DON’T try again!(Post)Refusals are all part of fly fishing. We’ve all been there. A huge trout swats at our stonefly pattern, a huge bump on our streamer but no love….it happens all the time. What do we do? We swa ...
Flies - What Are the Right Ones to Use?(Post)Fly fishing flies are designed to look like insects, invertebrates, and other creatures appealing to fish. Flies are the connection between you and the fish.There are different types of fis ...
The San Juan Worm(Post)There are many folks that believe that the San Juan worm fly is specific to the San Juan River. I’m not sure if this is the origin of the pattern or not, however, the fact remains there are ...
Best Flies For Spring (and Why): Midges, Mayflies, Eggs, and Worms(Post)As temperatures rise across the nation, the aquatic world comes alive. Warmer weather triggers the natural cycle of insect hatches, fish spawning, and increased feeding activity. For fly anglers, thi ...
Big Heavy Water(Post)I often used to look at big rivers and just give up on the areas with big heavy currents. Then a few years ago I watched a guy wade into an area with some serious lean-upstream current on the Green R ...
Where Trout Feed: Identify the Feeding Lanes(Post)There’s no fish in this river! Ever say that one before. Who has said that one before, I know I have. It’s often been said that 90% of the fish are in 10% of the river. I’m not so sure about t ...
Weeding Through the Weeds(Post)One of my local streams just had a bunch of water dumped into it from an upstream dam. This washed a lot of weeds and other debris into the river. If making it to another river just isn't an option h ...
Keys to Success in Late Spring Runoff(Post)April and May often bring on the high dirty waters of runoff in most snow-melt and rain-fed streams. Obviously, catching fish on artificial flies in cloudy water is tougher because the fly fisher rel ...
Best BWO Nymphs(Post)Despite it snowing for April Fool's Day, Spring has pretty much sprung and Spring in the Rockies means Blue Winged Olives are hatching somewhere. I know I talked about them about a month ago, but the ...
Why You Need a Landing Net(Post)There are mаnу tуреѕ оf gear аѕѕосіаtеd with fly fishing. Landing nets are a staple for nearly every angler because netting the fish makes landing a quicker process for the angler and ...
Netting(Post)Until I fished in an international rules fishing competition I had no idea that netting fish actually required any thought or practice. However, once I watched some real masters with a net I was conv ...
Fooling Tough Customers(Post)No this is not a marketing lesson, not exactly anyway. Anyone who has fished in waters that get heavy fishing pressure knows that fish get educated by anglers. Sometimes such fish get very visible an ...
