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Winter Fly Fishing Tips and 6 Favorite Winter Nymphs(Post)
With cold winter water the fish tend to hug the bottom of the deeper pools, drop-offs and slower tail outs. This time of the year you need to get your bugs on the bottom and in front ...
Riverbum is Adding More New Stuff!(Post)Seasons greetings my fishy friends! Some more great stuff happening at RiverBum....We are in the process of going through a complete site upgrade with new features, functionality, better photos and ...
Winter Trout Fishing(Post)Trout fishing in the winter is tough. Trout are cold blooded, which means their metabolic rate slows down. They’re not likely to move beyond a few inches for the fly and they will be swimming close ...
Adventure Fishing on a Budget(Post)One of the best things about fly fishing is that it can take one to the most intensely amazing places on earth. However, a trip to outer Mongolia to catch 2 meter-long Taimen isn't something most of ...
fly Casting Tune Up(Post)Being true RiverBums, most of us fish all year and all the time, right? Yeah, I know, that's not reality. I used to fish almost as much in the Winter as at other times but I now fish far less when it ...
Why You Should Use Leech Patterns in Winter: A Guide’s Perspective(Post)As a professional fly fishing guide, I’ve spent countless days on the water during the colder months. Whether you're casting for trout in icy rivers, swinging for steelhead in the Pacific Northwest, ...
Leveraging Angles in Fly Presentation(Post)We’ve heard it a thousand times, its not the fly, it’s the presentation. For me, its not either or…..its both. I think you can have a great presentation with the wrong fly and under optimize yo ...
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 ...
Fly Fishing for Water Wolves(Post)When I was about 5 years old, I pulled a huge Northern Pike out through the ice and screamed to my dad that I caught an alligator….or so the family story goes. The point here is, Pike are not ...
Learn to Love the Back of the Bus(Post)I just did a two day float on the Blackfoot River. What a fantastic fly fishing trip. The buddy I went with hadn’t done a guided fishing trip for over 20 years and the trip was a combo birthday, Fa ...
Sight Nymphing(Post)Most nymph fishing requires anglers to rely on a visual aid like a strike indicator or on feel to alert them to the strike of a fish. Sometimes though, especially when fish are visible, you can fish ...
Quick Fix Fly Fishing for Carp(Post)I've been hearing all about carp fishing for some time now, and even though I've caught a few of them at times when I've seen them in places where I was fishing for something else, I've kind of turne ...
Tips and Strategies for a PMD Hatch(Post)If you have ever tried dry fly fishing during a hatch, you already know that it can be equally exciting and frustrating at the same time. Understanding PMD mayfly behavior patterns will help you beco ...
Start With Why(Post)I recently read a great book by Simon Sinek title “Start With Why”. I was a great read. Many of the things called out in the book I have been intuitively for years. I very rarely tell my staff ...
Lessons on Guided Trips(Post)Lessons On Guided TripsI been very fortunate in life to be able to have gone on many of a guided fly-fishing trip. There are several things I’ve learned along the way.Roll With The PunchesGuides ...
