This is going to be a short article, because there is next to no difference in performance between casting a modern, graphite 2-piece or a 4-piece fly rod. In the hand, they feel identical. Either, will cast just as far and with comparable accuracy. Budget is also not a consideration, even cheap 4-piece rods have…
Yeah, this is quite the controversial headline, but I will not beat around the bush but will get straight to the key reason why. Fly fishing, and casting a fly rod is best done from a standing position, while kayaks are fundamentally water craft that are primarily designed for sitting. Standing is always an afterthought…
There’s nothing quite like the thrill of stripping in streamers. The feeling of being intimately connected to the action is truly indescribable and there might be no better place for streamer fishing than the waterways of Colorado. As such, I have finally gotten around to sharing my favorite 10 streamer and fly lure recommendations for…
Trout fishing can be particularly challenging during the winter months. As temperatures drop and conditions change, trout behavior and feeding patterns shift. While many fishermen find winter to be a miserable time to fish, due to cold temperatures, frozen guides and sluggish trout. Well, they are missing out, because on warm winter days the fishing…
Many fishermen do not know that fly lines should be clean. They then start to complain when there three month old floating line starts to sink. I use to think to myself, “But, my line gets washed every time I cast it into a crystal clear spring creek or alpine brook”. I do not have…
When out try fishing, most of the trout we see are feeding close to the surface, maybe sipping down mayflies. Sometimes, they have laying in the shallows, drifting side to side intercepting any nymph that floats by. These trout that we see in shallow water are the exception rather than the rule. For most of…
Quite a common sentiment is that the fly line is more important than the rod. Hence it is more important to spend more money on the line than on the rod. It is a sentiment I broadly agree with, and have probably even suggested doing exactly that in other articles. But, at the same time,…
I learned to fish spring creeks in the early 2000s, and at that time I spent a lot of my time fishing alongside an elderly English ex-pat, and fly fishing purist. let’s call him Malcolm because that was his name. Malcolm was a fanatic spring creek fisherman, every time I drove by the parking lots…
Fly fishing reels range in price from around $20 at the low end, to around $2500 for a high end Abel, some limited edition hardy reels are more expensive still. But just how much does someone need to spend to get a fly reel up to the task of landing trout? I have been fly…
Late summer, during the hopper the afternoon is one of my favorite times to fly fish. There is little that is more exciting than watching the swirls and splash as a trout rises from the depths to consume a hopper fly. There are three main ways to fish a hopper. As a dry fly, targeting…
