The intense buzzing can be heard from the truck as rods are hastily rigged with giant globs of foam with spider-looking legs dangling from all directions. While every angler has their favorite dry fly fishing hatch, there are few hatches in the sport of fly fishing that are more exciting than...
Of all the aspects of fly fishing that intimidate anglers, choosing the right line and knowing when to use it perhaps stands above all others. So here's a quick guide to choosing the correct size fly fishing tippet and leader. Table Of Contents What is tippet? What is a fly leader? How to use tippet. Different...
For bug enthusiasts, high summer can be a fairly dull time of year, with terrestrials taking center stage and mayfly activity bottoming out for the year. The seemingly never-ending drought of bug activity ceases with the first sign of the Trico hatch! This is no easy trout snack to master, however....
Dry fly fishing is an addicting aspect of trout fishing. It’s hard not to argue the visual appeal it has with the explosive takes which makes it a blast! Getting to that point where the faint fishy silhouette emerges and your dry fly disappears into the mouth of trout requires...
If you’ve ever been fly fishing long enough with dry flies you’ll know that they always take on water and sink after a few fish and drifts. This can be for a number of reasons from poor line control where mending is needed to better situations like you just landed...
Thousands in flight and every single trout gettin’ some action. In my small trickle of a stream, wild brown gorge on what we call Sulphurs. An Eastern late May and early June hatch that brings tens of thousands of seemingly yellow and orange colored mayflies to the air. Sulphurs never fail to...
For most of us, spring means warm weather and abundant hatches. From Pennsylvania to California, you'll start to see stoneflies, dark-toned mayflies, and caddis coming off. Spring offers so much action and plenty of thrills between seeing that first rise to watching that trout engulf your perfect presentation. But with...
If our "How to Nymph in the Winter" article was any indication of which methods of fly fishing are best for winter, then you might be thinking, dries flies simply aren't worth fishing in the winter. Day after day throughout the winter, nymphing will prove to be the most effective...
In these hot summer months, I always turn to a hopper dropper rig. I remember when I was just starting to fly fish and in the late summer months, I'd tie on a foam hopper that I made up with some craft foam from the local craft shops. I'd make this...
By Colton Orbaker Ever try picking out the right fly? No, no, I get it. It’s tough. Conditions are always changing and it always seems nearly impossible to pick the perfect fly for the job. But, it can be so easy. I actually use a simple 3 step process to pick mine. In fact, 80% of...
