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Fall Lake Fishing 2(Post)
Late Fall and early Winter, before ice covers the water, is an absolutely amazing time to fish lakes for trout. Often times fish will move into shallow water and will feed very aggressively in prepa ...
Bass on the Fly(Post)If you read these tips often you'll recognize that I'm primarily a trout fisherman. However, there's something really cool about bass. They act totally different from trout. They hang out basically m ...
Get Your Wooly Bugger On!(Post)Its autumn, the leaves are turning, there’s a chill in the air, the Brown Trout are spawning, and our local rivers aren’t nearly as crowed. What time is it? It’s Bugger time! Nothing gets me fire ...
Fish Privacy(Post)It's that time of year when several trout species including browns and brook trout get that feeling and go looking for love. This can be both good and bad for us as anglers. Here are a couple of thin ...
Selecting Your Steelhead Flies(Post)Chasing chrome is some of the most exciting fishing you can do. Steelhead are among the toughest fighting fish, have epic leaps, and get you into your drag quickly. Steelhead aren&r ...
Fly Fishing Tips and Tricks: Insect Life Cycles(Post)To be an effective trout fisherman, it is necessary to know the life cycles of the aquatic insects in a trout’s diet.Trout are cold blooded. In kind, so is most of their forage aside from the od ...
Dry Dropper Rigs for Lakes(Post)When most people think of trout fishing in lakes they automatically think of sinking lines and stripping leeches and wooly buggers. While this is certainly a tried and true tactic sometimes it isn't ...
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 ...
10 Go-To Flies For Trout(Post)With so many trout flies available today, it can be confusing to try and choose what to carry in your fly box. There are literally 1000's of flies to choose from in various sizes and colors. Ho ...
Pretty as a Pickerel(Post)I fondly remember fly fishing trips with my father as a kid. I remember one trip, I was maybe 5 or 6, we went ice fishing Lake Quinsigamond in central Massachusetts. It was my turn at the tip, an ...
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 ...
10 Must-Have Trout Flies For Fall Fly Fishing(Post)Fall showers bring high water and fast currents, not to mention aggressive trout. Navigating these cold waters can be a difficult task for fly fishers without the right flies.The Right Fly With ...
Fly Fishing Tips and Tricks: Water Requirements(Post)There are volumes of books written on reading the water, and thousands upon thousands of illustrations. I really don’t think I need to cover that. However, what I don’t often see is a dialogue ...
The Salt River Project: Urban Carp Fishing(Post)When most people think about fly fishing, they think about wild trout in beautiful forests or high mountain lakes. But how about fly fishing for carp in urban canals? If you fly fish in Ariz ...
Fly Fishing for Steelhead: Things You Need to Get Started(Post)So you want to chase some chrome! Who doesn’t, these are majestic fish. If you’re going to get into steelhead, you want to sure that you have the right gear. Rod B ...
Covering Water Effectively(Post)Many times on stream you'll find yourself prospecting or surveying by blind casting, dries, nymphs, or dry-dropper rigs to likely looking spots. Remember when you are doing this that often the ...
