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...
A Guide to Fly Fishing The Spring Fishing Season Springtime is an exciting time of the year for anglers. Huddled over our fly tying vice, or rereading The Drake Magazine in our living rooms all winter can become very mundane tasks. Replaying last season's memories of rising trout eagerly eating dry...
Dry Fly / Emerger Leader Setup Using overly thick line and short leaders can spook fish with a heavy landing on the surface. This is where putting distance between your colored fly line and your dry fly is crucial. The key to a soft dry fly landing is a longer leader using thin, flexible mono...
Few things deter anglers more than water that is stained from recent rainfall or snowmelt. In fact, some anglers would probably much prefer water that is raging high than off-color. It’s a matter of comfort for most of us, and when we can’t see the bottom to know the depth...
An overlooked trout destination South Carolina is known for a lot of things. Shrimp and grits and mustard-based barbecue. A religious obsession with college football. When you’re putting together a list of things to do in this state, trout fishing is not often at the top. When most anglers think of South...
While everyone loves to catch wild trout, many anglers have no choice but to target stocked trout thanks to their prevalence and proximity to home. There’s nothing wrong with going after these hatchery-reared fish, but sometimes the flies we use to target them are a bit different than on the...
Spring fly fishing is punctuated by strong hatches that stir trout from their winter slumber and into a feeding frenzy. The warmth of spring stimulates bug life in a big way, and for the first time in months, trout have a variety of insects to choose from to fill their dietary...
Most anglers associate steelhead fishing with the colors of autumn and snows of winter, but there’s great fishing to be had in spring as well! Fall rains swell tributaries of Lake Erie and bring in thousands of steelhead from the depths, and with it, hordes of anglers in search of these...
Everyone has their favorite go-to flies for spring. But, across the board there is very little variety. So, we made this list to show you some other great spring flies and why we chose them.
