Clients often me ask on guided fishing trips, "What is the most important hatch or insect for trout fishing?" Mayflies and stoneflies, especially the big ones like green drakes, brown drakes, salmon flies, and golden stones are the 'coolest' bugs on the water. They are often a fly fisherman's favorite...
Taking the road less traveled to explore new water can yield huge rewards. Many of today's famous trout rivers are overcrowded with anglers. This is especially true after the pandemic, as we have seen a huge explosion in people desiring to be outside, away from the confines of urban living....
Fly fishing is a fishing technique that involves using a special fly rod, reel, and line to cast artificial lures that imitate insects called flies. These fly fishing flies can represent all sorts of food fish eat like ants, mayflies, caddisflies, minnows, frogs, and mice. The goal of fly fishing...
Big fish eat big meals. Streamer fishing is your opportunity to target larger fish in the river. Next, to dry fly fishing, it can provide some of the most exciting fly fishing opportunities. Explosive strikes, ambush takes, and fish charging large flies make for a fun day on the water. There...
Georgia is not known for having large insect hatches like many of the Western states are known for, but does offer unique fly fishing opportunities 12 months of the year. From the small blue line freestone streams high in the Appalachian Mountains to the larger tailwaters found in the foothills,...
If you are a fly fishing nerd, then chances are you have been fishing very small flies to lethargic fish all winter long. Spring is nature's great awakening. Snow turns to rain, trees and flowers bloom, and the fish start to wake up too. For fish, this is an internal...
The mayfly is the quintessential aquatic insect that is often thought of when people visualize insects and fly fishing. Blue Wing Olive Mayflies are an important hatch that occurs year round, predominantly in spring, summer, and fall. They are an important food source in a trout's diet, and fly fishermen...
It can be confusing to start fly fishing when there are so many different fly fishing hook types and sizes to choose from, especially when other anglers start mentioning 1.5x or 2x long shanks or #2/0 streamers. Here is everything you need to know about fly fishing hook sizes to pick...
Most anglers that are new to fly fishing have some fishing experience. People’s fishing journey starts with a regular rod and reel on either a pond or at the coast. As interest in angling increases, making the jump to a fly fishing setup is a natural progression. Although you are...
Fly fishing is a type of fishing where anglers use artificial lures called "flies" to imitate real insects. Fly fishing flies are commonly made out of natural materials such as hair, feathers, and fur to represent any insect found on the bottom of the stream to bugs flying in the...
