Fly Fishing is a complex sport. There are times of the year when an angler may go to the water anticipating catching fish in a particular way and it just doesn’t happen. This can be especially true during the colder fall, winter, and early spring months. As anglers, we focus...
Euro nymphing is not as easy as watching a strike indicator plunge under the surface at every strike, but not by much. However, Euro nymphing is definitely more effective and, arguably, more entertaining due to the attentive nature you need to do it effectively. I would say that dry fly fishing...
Why? Literally, every reason is a huge bonus compared to not using a hand-crafted European nymphing leader. The leader is specifically designed for maximizing your nymphing for strikes and feeling takes. Overall, here are a few great reasons why you should be using a euro nymphing leader versus a traditional tapered...
For all of the squinting into fly boxes trying to locate the size #26 midge that goes on during winter, that goes out the window when it comes time to fish stoneflies! Trout are constantly in a caloric struggle of consuming versus conserving, and as such they love feeding on things...
Euro nymphing is a specialized form of fly fishing using only heavily weighted nymphs with no split shots or strike indicators. It has been referred to as Czech, French, Tight-line, High Sticking, and Polish Nymphing. European nymphing was formally introduced in 1989 at the World Fly Fishing Championship by Wladyslaw...
Winter can be an incredibly rewarding time to be out on your favorite trout stream! With fewer people sharing the water, the winter months offer up a fantastic opportunity to enjoy relative solitude and put a few trout in the net. The action typically doesn’t match that of spring and summer,...
There isn’t much that gets an angler’s heart pumping quite like a big trout hammering terrestrials right on the bank, which makes August a month to look forward to each year. In most parts of the country, August is a relatively dead month in terms of heavy bug hatches. Tricos are...
Steelhead can’t resist a well-placed nymph rig, and that’s why most fly anglers start each trip targeting fish in this manner! When fly fishing for steelhead in the Great Lakes tributaries, it’s easy to become mesmerized by these giant fish in such small water. High-sticking nymph rigs are the perfect way...
Every fly angler has been in this exact situation hundreds of times. You've found a slow-moving pool with a pod of trout visibly rising to feed. The trout are rising consistently and you've been watching carefully. Rather than taking insects sitting on the top, they look to be stopping short...
While anglers desperately await the arrival of spring and the hatches that serve as a welcome relief from winter, midges still dominate the late winter months. Bug life often mirrors the weather outside, and rarely do huge mayflies hatch when temperatures are frigid and the snow is pounding. With that in...
