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Harry

Now is the time to sign up for our “On the Stream” Trout and Smallmouth Bass Schools while you can choose the dates [...]

When you are planning a smallmouth fishing trip early in the season for large bass when the rivers are cold and full give [...]

I don’t believe any one fly will meet all of my dry fly needs. However, when I consider that the Mr. Rapidan Parachute [...]

I always keep a complete change of clothes in a small duffel bag in the back seat of my Jeep. These often come [...]

Learn simple knots which are easy to use in cold weather when your hands are cold. For example, I find it easier to [...]

I once over-dressed a ferrule on a graphite rod at home during the winter, then as the air temperature dropped during the day [...]

For winter fly fishing I use waders with one or two size larger shoes than normal. These permit me to wear heavy wool [...]

A simple way to keep warm when fly fishing in the winter even when using all of the latest coats and rain coats [...]

For many years we’ve had great success using switch rods for smallmouth bass. These provide much better drag control, distance, nymph strike detection, [...]

Last fall I was fishing a very heavy beatis mayfly hatch with a new dry fly of the type which had been working [...]

Tapply Bug, Black & Yellow Deer Hair surface bass bugs are great. Many bass hold onto them longer than poppers thus enabling us [...]

When I can’t figure out why I’m not catching as many smallmouths as I think I should, rather than change from one fly [...]

Shenandoah Sunfish When you are purchasing bass surface bugs remember that the shape of the bug and the cut of the face is [...]

I firmly believe that the quality of the hackle on a dry fly is more important than the color. When I started tying [...]

When you are tying deer hair bass bugs you can improve their durability by painting the hair along the hook shank on the [...]

Floating Chub When tying deer hair bugs for surface fishing for bass be sure to trim the stomach closely in order to get [...]

When tying streamers with which you plan to fish deeply keep them slim. Fat flies just don’t sink well. [...]

Many of you ask me how late in the season I fish for bass. My honest answer is that I keep going until [...]

Speaking of fishing discolored water as we were on the 13th, Vince Marinaro told me that he always caught more trout on dark [...]

When I started fishing the Yellowstone River in the seventies one of my angling heroes always went fishing when it was raining. He [...]

When you feel that quick “bump” as you are stripping a streamer in a stream holding browns get ready. Frequently this is a [...]

When wading down a river and fishing streamers it is wise to stop wading when you are stripping it in. Otherwise it is [...]

The beatis is a wonderful hatch and many large trout feed on them. The Beatis mayflies are hatching now in our rich trout [...]

Knowing large bass want a big mouthful, Harry likes to use large flies. Big bass hunting at this time of the year prompts [...]

Jeff Murray enjoys fishing midges all across the country. There are three steps I use when fishing size 24 midges which help me [...]

Check your leader and fly knots regularly to be ready for that large bass. Since this is a great time of the year [...]

The author catches many large bass on his Magnum Creek Chub in October. Fish the Murray’s Magnum Creek Chub size 4 in the [...]

A gentle “slip strike” will save you many large trout as Jeff Murray shows In order to hook those midge feeding trout with [...]

Big Bass Like the Shade When all of the other factors in a river are equal the largest smallmouths in the river will [...]

The largest trout will always hold on the best feeding station If you have a friend who is just getting into trout fishing [...]

When you are floating a river while bass fishing you have a good chance to catch some large bass. In order to land [...]

For the past hour’s smallmouth flyfishing you just haven’t gotten the action you expected. You feel you need to change something but what? [...]

Saturday evening after I closed the fly shop, I fished the North Fork of the Shenandoah River and had excellent action. In one [...]

By this time of the season many terrestrial insects, especially the grasshoppers and crickets, are quite large and the large trout feed heavily [...]

As the trout streams get low late in the season we know the trout become very wary. There is a natural tendency for [...]

September can provide some of the finest trout fishing of the whole year. The streams start cooling, there are good midge hatches, there [...]

From the middle of September to the middle of October the huge Hexagenia mayflies hatch on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. [...]

Much of the natural food which is available to the trout at this time of the year is quite small. We talk about [...]