Fly Fishing Chironomid Midges
The Mr. Rapidan Soft Hackle is a great fly to use when the trout are taking emerging midges. Many trout feed actively on
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Three Bass Fly Lines
Fly fishing at the water temperature we have in October (50’s) using the correct fly line wil help you catch the largest bass.
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Smallmouth’s Favorite Feeding Station
Big Bass Like the Shade When all of the other factors in a river are equal the largest smallmouths in the river will
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Trout Feeding Station
The largest trout will always hold on the best feeding station If you have a friend who is just getting into trout fishing
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Big Bass While Floating
When you are floating a river while bass fishing you have a good chance to catch some large bass. In order to land
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Smallmouth Tactics
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?
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Great Fishing!!
Saturday evening after I closed the fly shop, I fished the North Fork of the Shenandoah River and had excellent action. In one
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Terrestrials for Trout
By this time of the season many terrestrial insects, especially the grasshoppers and crickets, are quite large and the large trout feed heavily
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Control the Drift
As the trout streams get low late in the season we know the trout become very wary. There is a natural tendency for
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Terrific Trout Fishing
September can provide some of the finest trout fishing of the whole year. The streams start cooling, there are good midge hatches, there
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Smallmouth Hexagenia
From the middle of September to the middle of October the huge Hexagenia mayflies hatch on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River.
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Wary Smallmouth
We now have great drift boats that permit us to stand in the front of the boats to cast while drifting the rivers.
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Better Trout Hooking
Here are four steps I use in order to improve the percentage of hooked trout when using size 22 and size 24 dry
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Catch Bass When They Are Off Guard
At this time of the year many large smallmouth feed at night. Here are some tactics which will help you. 1. Select a
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Cool Trout
At this time of the year the trout do not feed well in the warm water in Freestone Streams. Frequently you can catch
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Crescent Moon at Twilight
Early mornings spent flyfishing provide an outstanding opportunity for some spectacular scenery especially as fall nears.
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Trico Feeders
Large trout feeding on natural trico mayflies are very selective on the artificial flies they will take and the way they drift during
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Tough Smallmouth Bass Flyfishing
Years ago Charlie Brooks of West Yellowstone and I were experimenting with some new very large stonefly nymph patterns for large trout. When
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Grass Helps Part 2
Another way thick aquatic grassbeds can help our smallmouth fishing late in the summer is by the damming effect they have on the
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Grass Helps Part 1
The aquatic grassbeds in smallmouth rivers can help our fishing in many ways. For example, I recently waded up through a deep pool
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Fly Fishing for Big Smallmouth Bass
This time of the year that next strike might be from the largest bass you’ll move all year and you sure don’t want
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Stop and Impart Action
When you are fishing streamers across stream for trout or bass as you wade downstream stop and stand still before stripping your fly
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Smallmouth Bass & Trout Fly Fishing Report
In this podcast Harry Murray covers tactics which work well for him as the smallmouth bass rivers get low. These include: 1) Fishing
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New Hats just arrived
Our new Soft Crown Trucker Hats just arrived!
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Be ready for strikes flyfishing for Smallmouth Bass
Frequently a large smallmouth bass will strike your fly the second it lands on the river. In order to be able to set
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Wading with Studded Boots
Metal studs on wading shoes are a great help on large streams such as the Shenandoah River and Yellowstone River. However, they do
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Natural Drift
When one is fishing dry flies in the small 18 to 24 sizes it is often very difficult to discern why the trout
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Smallmouth Bass on Hoppers and a Fly Rod
By this time of the summer the natural grasshoppers, crickets, and cicadas are large enough to attract the large smallmouth bass. In fact,
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Bass in the Pool Tail
The smallmouth bass rivers are now low and the bass are very wary. However, they still need to feed. This opens the door
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Mountain Trout
Many brook trout are feeding on the surface to the good hatches we have now so take advantage of each riser you see.
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Trico Fishing Part 3
So far we’ve seen how to fool the trico feeders by going early and staying late and how to use one method of
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A good reason to flyfish on top!
Good Monday morning to all. Planning to hit your favorite Smallmouth Bass river with a fly rod and a box of poppers? Go
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Dobsonfly Eggs
Dobsonfly Eggs on the rocks and leaves in and overhanging the rivers means one thing; the Hellgrammite Nymphs are active and the Smallmouth
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Trico Fishing Part 2
Earlier we talked about how to fool the trico feeders by getting to the streams early and staying late. Now let’s cover some
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Trico Fishing Part 1
Many brown trout streams now have good trico hatches. When the brown trout lock onto the heavy part of this hatch they can
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Never Too Young!
Those trout don’t have a chance!
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Light Drag
When I have large brown trout taking small flies on 7X and 8X leaders I set my reel drag as light as possible…just
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Spooked Trout
You are fishing dry flies up a beautiful brooke trout stream and you spot a brook trout rising regularly to take naturals from
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Trout Level
We have a situation in our mountain brook trout streams in Virginia that I have not encountered in 40 years of fishing these
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Get Ready for the Next Pool
When you are fishing dry flies on a mountain brook trout stream what is the last thing you should do when you finish
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Seeing Trout
The brook streams are now low enough and clear enough to bring about my favorite form of trout fishing…spotting them on their feeding
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Bass in Shade
The best smallmouth flyfishing at this time of the year is often found in the shady parts of the rivers. An easy way
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Mayfly Sulphur
The back door of my home beside Stoney Creek is presently covered with Sulphur Mayflies.
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May we never forget – God Bless
“Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends”. In remembrance of all who gave the
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Snakes
The rattlesnakes and copperheads are starting to come out along our brook trout streams. Although they are not going to keep me from
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Smallmouth Bass Fly Fishing Podcast 5-22-12
Listen to Harry Murray’s Podcast discussion on Fly Fishing for Smallmouth Bass from late May through early summer. Harry discusses stream conditions, smallmouth
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