Fly Fishing Articles
Some people like to fly fish from their canoe. But there are advantages and disadvantages to this unusual combinations of activities. People usually fly fish from land, standing still in water or from...
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Saltwater fly fishing is all the rage these days. This excitement is quite understandable because there’s hardly anything more thrilling to a saltwater fly rodder than a bluefish blitz, a tailing red...
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Small Stream Fly Fishing I believe there are more fish lost before an angler makes his first cast than at any other time when fly fishing the small stream. Picture this; you've spent some time hiking...
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Tips on Fly Fishing There are thousands of live-bait anglers, who are excellent sportsmen, but the fly fisherman can practice better conservation from the beginning. Basically, fly fishing is not only...
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Fly fishing in itself can be intimidating for the uninitiated. Watching a fly fisher while holding a spin rod can feel humbling. The whole world of fly fishing looks complicated, daunting, unfriendly...
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The Magic of My First Trout I grew up in Iowa fishing for catfish, bass, crappie and bullheads using some of the worst smelling baits you could imagine. But my father loved to hunt and fish so I went along. On one summer vacation to Oklahoma, Dad stopped at the fish hatchery in Bennett Springs, MO. I can still remember standing on the bridge watching a fly fisherman gracefully cast a dry fly upstream to the base of the little dam feeding a pool by the hatchery. On the third cast, he hooked up with a nice fat 12 to 14 inch rainbow that leapt out the water 3 or 4 times trying to throw the hook....
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Used properly Strike Indicators lead to more fish being caught. Used improperly they can actually hamper the fly fisher's ability to catch fish. How can one tell if their strike indicator is helping them or hurting them? Well that is the question we will try to answer here. I was introduced to strike indicators about 15 years ago. A friend of mine had been fishing on guided trips in Montana, and came back with them, raving about them. Of course not wanting to be on the outside of the latest edge in fly fishing, I had to try them. I hated them. They interfered with my casting, they did kept my...
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