Mouse flies are fun, and fishing them is fun. Watching a trout smash a large dry for the surface is exhilarating. This is why I do it. But are mice flies really that effective of a pattern? Time and time again, I read articles that suggest the secret to catching big trout at night is…
When fly fishing, indicators get lost all of the time. On some popular trout streams, the banks seem to be littered with little round balls of foam and especially the stick on foam pads. There is already enough plastic waste littering our rivers and lakes, and I always prefer a more environmentally friendly product than…
There is no need to purchase expensive or dedicated saltwater flies for saltwater fishing. For occasional use traitional freshwater trout streamers are just as effective in fooling saltwater pelgaics and reef fish as they are in catching that wary brown trout. I have been saltwater fly fishing nearly as long as I have been a…
Simple question, but a difficult answer. The number one variable which determines the number of trout caught is not the lure or gear used but the skill of the angler. A novice with a spinning rod, will nearly always outfish a novice with a fly rod. The learning curve required to fish with spinning gear…
The Hopper Dropper might just be my favorite summer time fly fishing rig. Simply because it catches more trout. The Hopper Dropper Rig is a variation of the standard dry fly dropper rig. It uses a large terrestrial fly that resembles a Grasshopper, cicada, crickets, locus or adult stonefly, or any large terrestrial insect. One…
Today, Sage has announced their new R8, their first flagship fly rod for quite a few years The launch hype is generating quite a bit of conversation. Much of which is concerning its $1050 price tag. So I decided this would be a good topic for a blog, do expensive rods catch more fish? Is…
If you are reading this article, I guess you have just dropped a fly box overboard and watched helplessly as it sunk to the deep. Don,t feel too bad, I am sure most fly fishermen have lost more than a few fly boxes over the years. In this article, I will share what I consider…
Struggling to catch trout while fly fishing, this article provides a few hints to how better select and present flies to hopefully catch more trout. How to present a dry to rising trout Present the fly above where you can see the trout rising, not at the site of the rise. The rise is where…
Welcome to my guide to targeting rainbow trout in mountain lakes. I love fishing in the mountains, there is nothing better than fishing surrounded by nature. Maybe best of all, mountain lakes usually stay cold enough to fish even in the hottest part of summer. Many new anglers can find lakes a bit daunting. There…
Reviewing products when new is fine, but it does little to indicate long term durability. So in this post, I decided to take a look at one of my old Lamson fly reels to see how well my US made Lamson has held up after many years of freshwater use. I tried to find my…
