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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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;
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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
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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
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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
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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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Wary Mountain Trout
When mountain trout streams get low late in the season the trout become very wary and we scare many of them in the
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Lost Eyeglasses
Taking s spill in the river when you’re wading can easily happen. If you wear prescription eyeglasses it is quite possible these can
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Felt Soles on Small Mountain Streams
When you are fishing small mountain regular felt sole wading shoes and boots are safer than felts with metal studs. The metal studs
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Mending & Strike Detection
Mending the fly line upstream is a great way to help achieve good depth with your streamers and nymphs. Just remember to pick
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Thunderstorm Guide Trip Special
The North Fork is in great shape to float with Waterskippers since the rains received this past week. We will offer guide trips
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Fine Tuning Streamer Strike Detection
When fishing streamers across stream you will easily feel most of your strikes. However, as the fly swings down and across stream the
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High Gradient Trout Streams
When the mountain trout streams get low late in the summer the trout become very wary and one can easily spook them before
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Cast ot the Second Bass
Often when you fight a smallmouth bass you’ll see a second one following close behind him. If your fishing partner is close by
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