Fly Fishing Tips

Harry Murray's Fly Fishing Tips

Fly Fishing Tips Podcast by Harry Murray

March 2018

Listen to  this months fly fishing tips podcast where I will be discussing several questions that I have been asked within the last month by customers in my fly shop.

  • There have been many stories and ads on Furled Leaders.  How do they compare to knotless leaders and knotted leaders?
  • How to fish a dry with a dropper to cover the Epeorus pleuralis hatch (also known as the Quill Gordon hatch).  Example: Mr. Rapidan Dry Fly with Mr. Rapidan Emerger
Bass Fishing in Cold Weather--Fly Fishing Tip
Even in cold weather we can catch smallmouth bass by fishing deeply with a fast sinking tip line or a fast sinking head line.
Harry Murray's Fly Fishing Tips Podcast
Cold spring air temperatures can slow down the time it takes for the Blue Quill Mayflies to fly off the stream and they are shunted to the sides of the stream.
  • How to fish the Blue Quill hatch (Paraleptophlebia adaptiva) in the back eddies.
  • Tips for tying a deer hair bass bug–three important things to remember.  1) no thread on the hook shank, 2) clean all of the small pieces and junk out of the deer hair before starting and 3) my secret tip for making my deer hair bugs last longer.