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Bluegill, The Gateway Drug(Post)
Which one of us doesn’t have fond memories of grabbing a spinning rod, bobber, hooks and some worms and hitting the ‘ole fishing hole? For many of us, that’s how we all got started. That litt ...
3 Best Trout Fishing Flies That Guarantee Success(Post)Choosing fly fishing flies for trout can be challenging, as there is no single fly that will suit every situation. However, some flies are more consistent than others and more prevalent in streams ac ...
Keep It Deep(Post)Most fish, whether they are trout, warm water species, or even most salt water fish, spend most of their lives near the bottom. Dry flies are obviously great when they are working, but because fish a ...
The Wonderful Wooly Bugger(Post)The Buggers popularity stems from the fact that this pattern simply catches fish, all kinds of fish. It is used to catch everything from Shad to Steelhead, Trout to Pike, and Bass to St ...
The Hopper Dropper Technique with RiverBum Pro Cinda Howard(Post)It's Fly Fishing Friday! In today's episode, Cinda Howard Owner of Fly Fish Arizona and Beyond & RiverBum Pro Staff member shows us how to use the Hopper Dropper Technique on small stre ...
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 ...
Fishing Wet Flies(Post)I recently received and information request asking about how to fish wet flies. The definition of a wet fly is any fly that is designed to sink and be fished below the water's surface. There are actu ...
Reading Your Stream(Post)From time to time I get the question - "what flies should I use on my stream?" from places that I've never been nor fished. The only answer I can really offer without more information is to suggest s ...
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 ...
Expanding the RiverBum Community(Post)Brotherhood of the BendOpening the sport of fly fishing to all is one of our greatest passions at RiverBum. We want women, kids, and fly fishers of all skill levels to get out there on the water a ...
Nymph Fishing: The Hopper-Dropper Technique(Post)Whether called the Dry-Dropper, Hopper-Dropper, or the double lindy, this method of fishing was popularized in the west but is now deployed all over the world. The basic premise is that your stri ...
Small Stream Fishing(Post)Fishing small streams has got to be one of my favorite things to do! Sure, fishing a larger river for trophy trout can be a blast, but nothing beats hiking into remote places where catching a twelve- ...
Musky Love(Post)Catching a Musky on the fly is on the bucket list of many a fly fisherman. These top predators are a tremendous challenge not only to hook, but to land. It takes serious drive and determinatio ...
Beetle Juice & Chocolate Ants(Post)For some reason, when it comes to the fly fishing world the beetle and a small ant are often overlooked as a viable fly fishing offering, many folks favoring throwing large Chernobyl’s and the l ...
Nymph Fishing: Part 2(Post)If you want to catch fish feeding at or near the bottom, you’ve got to get your fly on the bottom. Pretty much the statement of the obvious there. Now comes the tricky part, how long of a leader ...
Caddisfly Life Cycle & Hatch(Post)Caddisflies haven’t gotten the love historically that mayflies have gotten from anglers. However, that seems to be changing. One night at dinner with my friend Nino he was making fun of me on h ...
