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 [...]

Here are four steps I use in order to improve the percentage of hooked trout when using size 22 and size 24 dry [...]

At this time of the year many large smallmouth feed at night. Here are some tactics which will help you. 1. Select a [...]

Frequently a down and across stream presentation will give you a very natural drift with size 24 Tricos and pseudeocleons. However, a conventional [...]

At this time of the year the trout do not feed well in the warm water in Freestone Streams. Frequently you can catch [...]

Would you like to catch your largest smallmouth bass of the season on your next trip? A simple but very effective tactic is [...]

When one is fishing dry flies in the small 18 to 24 sizes it is often very difficult to discern why the trout [...]

The smallmouth bass rivers are now low and the bass are very wary. However, they still need to feed. This opens the door [...]

Many brook trout are feeding on the surface to the good hatches we have now so take advantage of each riser you see. [...]

So far we’ve seen how to fool the trico feeders by going early and staying late and how to use one method of [...]

Good Monday morning to all. Planning to hit your favorite Smallmouth Bass river with a fly rod and a box of poppers? Go [...]

Dobsonfly Eggs on the rocks and leaves in and overhanging the rivers means one thing; the Hellgrammite Nymphs are active and the Smallmouth [...]

Earlier we talked about how to fool the trico feeders by getting to the streams early and staying late. Now let’s cover some [...]

Many brown trout streams now have good trico hatches. When the brown trout lock onto the heavy part of this hatch they can [...]

When I have large brown trout taking small flies on 7X and 8X leaders I set my reel drag as light as possible…just [...]

You are fishing dry flies up a beautiful brooke trout stream and you spot a brook trout rising regularly to take naturals from [...]