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Line Weight for Floating Line, Sink Tip Fly Line, and More(Post)
Fly lines are available in different weights. Weight is indicated in grains, where there are 14 grains in a gram. Sounds confusing? Don’t worry, American manufacturers have provided a scale th ...
Multi-fly Rigs(Post)One of the best ways to search for fish when there isn't a hatch or to cover all of the stages of a hatch is to use multiple flies at once. Most seasoned fly anglers have used a big dry fly with a dr ...
Shaking the winter chill in Abaco in April(Post)By the time March rolls around, I am done with the Massachusetts winter. I have passed the time as best I could, and light is at the end of the tunnel. I know my boat will be going in sometime dur ...
Don’t Buy that Fly! A Guide For Beginners(Post)Beginners: Stick with the Essentials The pure variety of flies on the market today can be overwhelming, especially to the novice fisherman. At RiverBum, we have over 2,500 unique patterns!&n ...
Common Spring Creek Mistakes(Post)Fishing spring creeks can be a great challenge. Avoid these common mistakes to improve your success on the water. Limit your false casting. Too much false casting increases the odds ...
Emergers(Post)Emergers can often be overlooked in the fly fishing world. Many folks consider themselves “A Dry Fly Guy” or a “Streamer Gal”. I find it curious that some folks just stick to one thing. Tha ...
Hopper Time(Post)Late summer is hopper time. Here are a few things to remember for great grasshopper fishing. Look for streams running through meadows. There are usually very few grasshoppers in forested areas but i ...
Hot High Water Flies(Post)With warmer Spring and early Summer weather comes high water in many rivers and streams. This definitely presents a challenge, but that by no means should inhibit you from getting a line wet! Here ...
Fly Rod Selection(Post)Hopefully we're all effectively hinting about a new fly rod for under the tree. There are obviously many great choices in fly rods. Here's a couple of quick suggestions that might help you hint bette ...
Think Salt(Post)With the North country getting cold it's time to think about hitting points South for some saltwater action. Most people think of destination saltwater fishing as an expensive trip but that doesn't a ...
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 ...
Must Have Euro Flies(Post)Euro nymphing and Tightlining is becoming very popular in the States these days. For good reason, these fishing techniques catch fish! Like all other forms of nymphing the best place to catch fi ...
Wet Fly Surprise(Post)Love it or hate it, Facebook has some good stuff and some not so good. One the good side, a memory feed came up for me that was a picture of me and my then 7-year-old daughter on a fishing trip t ...
Tailwater(Post)One of the lucky side effects of dams is the creation of trout habitat in the tailwaters below them. The damming of rivers, and resultant cooling of the rivers below has added thousands of miles of t ...
Tenkara Flies: Answering Some Common Questions About These Mystery Patterns(Post)In Western fly fishing, an angler’s fly box is a treasure trove of options: dry flies, nymphs, midges, streamers, terrestrials with literally thousands of patterns falling wi ...
Streamers for Rising Trout 2(Post)Sometimes even rising trout can be tough to catch. They may be keyed in on a bug that you don't have a match for or lying in a spot where the drift is impossible. Occasionally in these situations a ...
