Smallmouth Lines
I use 3 different fly lines for my smallmouth bass fishing. The weight forward floating bass bug taper line covers 80% of my [...]
How Deep & How Slow?
In the fall when the smallmouth rivers get cool many of the largest fish head for the deepest water they can find within [...]
Stream Report 11/11/08
Virginia Shenandoah Valley Stream Report 11/11/08 https://blog.murraysflyshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/nov-11-2008-report.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS [...]
Net or Not?
In almost every case you can land your fish quicker and stress them less if you use a good small mesh soft landing [...]
2009 Fly Fishing School Dates
We have had a lot of requests for the dates of our 2009 On The Stream Fly Fishing Schools so, here are the [...]
Where Is the Trout Feeding?
Evaluate the currents, the protected holding areas in the stream and the natural foods. The largest trout select feeding stations which will enable [...]
Fall Trout Fishing Podcast Part I
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Hop A Hopper
When you are fishing a grasshopper pattern experiment with the fly-action. In some cases a dead drift is most productive while at other [...]
Give Him the Butt
When you hook a large hot fish don’t try to subdue him quickly by sticking your rod tip in the air and leaning [...]
Brook In The Round
When you are designing a new nymph reflect on the advice of past masters. My friend and tutor the late Charlie Brooks insisted [...]
What’s He Feeding On?
You see trout swirling and jumping all over the stream but they will not take any dry you show them. What’s wrong? These [...]
Olives or Midges
In the winter you spot trout rising to feed on the surface. The insects are very small but you finally catch one so [...]
Deice Your Fly Rod
In the winter when your fly rod freezes in your guides you can often get in a few more weeks with this trick. [...]
If You Had One Cast
To develop accuracy in reading mountain trout streams select ten consecutive pools. Allow yourself only one cast into each pool after evaluating the [...]
MFS Stream Report 09-29
Bass and trout stream report for 09-29-2008 https://blog.murraysflyshop.comwp-content/uploads/2008/09/report-09-29.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS [...]
Duct Tape
I keep a small roll of this in the back of my vest for emergency repairs. Just some of it’s uses include: taping [...]
Learn Trout on a Mountain Stream
Small mountain trout streams are the best classrooms one can find for learning trout fishing. Here you will learn feeding stations, cautious approach, [...]
Stuck Rod
I’ve seen rods broken because excessive force was used to take a rod apart when the ferrules were stuck. Try to prevent this [...]
Seeing Trout
Spotting the trout on their feeding stations and going one on one with them is great fun. To locate these trout look for [...]
Revive a Landed Fish
1- Always land your fish as quickly as possible. 2- Lead him into your landing net. 3- Handle him very little. 4- Face [...]
Two Worlds of Nymphing
“Swing Nymphing” is a great way to fish the deep runs on large trout streams and smallmouth rivers. Cast up and across the [...]
2008 Closeouts & Discontinued Items
In the market for a bargain on a new Ross Fly Reel or a New St. Croix or Scott Fly Rod or perhaps [...]
FF Report 9/6/08
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Dance A Skater
From July until fall you often see smallmouth bass jumping from the river to grab adult damselflies as they buzz across the surface [...]
Land More Fish
Several years ago I did an extended study on the number of smallmouth bass I landed on barbless verses barbed flies….I landed 30 [...]
Hatches & Wildflowers
I’m constantly amazed how the hatches of mayflies coincide with the wildflowers in the spring. For example, when the dogwood is in bloom [...]
End of Summer – Go Fishing
As Labor Day quickly brings yet another great summer to a proverbial close… I think I will Go Fishing! The crowded rivers of [...]
Fly Fishing Report 8/29/08
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Water Temperature on Small Feeders
The water temperature of mountain trout streams is very important to the feeding habits of the trout. Early in the spring and late [...]
Fish or Rock
When you feel a bump as you fish your nymph or streamer deeply it could be the largest fish of the season. True, [...]
Fall Fish
Some smallmouth anglers love fallfish while others curse them. However, if you are catching many large fallfish in a smallmouth river you are [...]
Quick Bass Strike
A bass takes your surface bug the instant it lands on the river. This is great, but what is it telling you that [...]
Shenandoah Valley Fishing Report with Harry
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It is Hopper Time for Smallmouth Bass
By August the natural grasshoppers are large enough to attract smallmouth bass. Fish a hopper pattern tight to the banks where you see [...]
Natural Drift
Frequently large trout in heavily fished streams refuse one’s dry fly because it is not drifting naturally on the surface. Mixed currents pull [...]
Three Great Fish
Some fine smallmouth rivers have large populations of rock bass, sunfish and smallmouth bass. It is definitely possible to catch one of each [...]
Trick the Hatch Feeders
You’re fishing a heavy trico or pseudocleon hatch and you’ve done pretty well with size 24 flies by matching the hatch. However, some [...]
Harry’s Fly Fishing Podcast 8/16/2008
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Strong Arm
One of the worst problems that can confront a fly fisherman on a two week long fishing trip to a distant location is [...]
Dying Minnows
Many large smallmouth bass quickly grab a real dying minnow struggling on the surface of the river. I’ve had great success mimicking this [...]
Fighting a Large Trout on a Grass Filled Spring Creek
When you hook a large trout on a spring trout get downstream from him as quickly as possible and reel in all of [...]
Flashing Fly Lines Can Scare Trout
Trout are always wary of strange movements over the stream. From the time they were finglings they learned to flee from snakes and [...]
Shenandoah River Sign
If you are floating down the South Fork of the Shenandoah River and see this sign you may want to alter your route; [...]
Pound up a Smallmouth Bass?
You have a large smallmouth bass swirl under your surface bug but he refuses to take it. Can you cast it back to [...]
Fishing Report Podcast with Harry
Check out our Fishing Report Podcast: Listen to the August 4, 2008 Smallmouth Bass Fishing Report here or the August 4, 2008 Trout [...]
Slow Retrieve for Bass
When smallmouth rivers get low and clear late in the summer the largest fish often want a streamer fished very slowly along the [...]
Twisted Leader
When your leader gets twisted while your fishing it results from using a leader with a tippet which is too long or too [...]
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