Being prepared in life is a key facet of being successful. To be successful as a fly angler, time needs to be put in off the water organizing flies, rods, reels and the minor accessories. Too often, I get to the water and realize I forgot one or two things. One of the most frustrating […]
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My favorite way to chase steelhead is in small rivers and streams. One of my nameless rivers is a small stream by Western standards, especially in its upper reaches. There, following a narrow corridor through the forest, the river rushes down over a bottom of bright gravel, spills into sparkling pools and pockets and eases
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I’ve written so many articles on nymph fishing, because it’s affective. Competitive fly fishers are masters of reading the water and NYMPH fishing. So if the bass, trout and panfish are eating mostly below the water surface. The question is: Which nymph do I use under a variety of circumstances? I love the words: “keep
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Silver salmon are one of those fish that it’s hard to get enough of. Usually by March I’m planning an annual August escape. Chasing salmon has become a pilgrimage for me just like that salmon returning to home waters. I have ruined my life with this pursuit, with places both near and far, but throughout
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Few of us anglers are actually the purists we aspire to be, I think. For years, I styled myself as the dry-fly guy. If fish wouldn’t eat on top, I didn’t want to catch them. And for a while, that worked alright for me. But I realized quickly how much fishing I was missing out
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This will seem obvious, but very beneficial to the angler. “Fish don’t have hands” So, as feeding organisms, they must grab things in their mouths to test them as potential foods. If you could sit in an under-water viewing chamber and watch trout in their natural stream setting you would notice that they examine and
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In spring, I usually forget about dry-fly fishing and plan to nymph fish to catch big fish. Water temperatures in most freestone streams are in the high 30s or low 40s. Smaller browns and rainbows can be found rising to midge hatches, but until the first active hatches start popping, I take larger fish on
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In the world of fly tying, simple tools and procedures often go overlooked. Quite a bit of the process is complicated and requires extreme focus. When mistakes happen, we want to make sure that nothing goes wrong with tools like the bobbin, hair stacker and especially our scissors. You need to have at least one
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It has been often said that trout spend as much as 90 percent of their feeding tie eating aquatic invertebrates that are drifting in the currents below the surface. If you want to catch more trout on flies, you must be able to fish nymphs on dead-drift. Nymphs often work better than dry flies, especially
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IF YOU CAN’T GO NYMPHING for trout as often as you would like, you can sharpen your nymph-fishing skills between trips by pursuing panfish and bass in your local streams, ponds, and reservoirs. These warmwater fish can be your best opportunity to hone your basic nymphing techniques, because they are often more willing than trout
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