Brooks 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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Does the Color of Clothing Affect Your Angling Success?
From the time fish were fingerlings they learned to flee predators coming at them from above. I’ve seen both snakes and birds capture
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Trout Podcast Part I – 11/15/08–Fly Fishing for Trout on small to medium size streams throughout North America
A discussion on Fly Fishing for Trout on small to medium size streams throughout North America. https://shenandoahfishing.murraysflyshop.com/AudioFiles/TroutPodcastPartI.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Fall Trout Fishing Podcast Part I
https://shenandoahfishing.murraysflyshop.com/AudioFiles///TroutPodcastPartI.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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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
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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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Go High
In the spring if the mountain trout streams are high you can often find great fishing by hiking into the very heads of
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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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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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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
https://blog.murraysflyshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/ff-report-9-6-08.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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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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Olvies
“Don’t overlook the olives; just don’t overlook the little olvies.” This was the advice of the late Vince Marinaro as we discussed the
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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
https://blog.murraysflyshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/ff-report-08-28-082.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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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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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
https://blog.murraysflyshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/ff-report-8-22-08.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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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
https://blog.murraysflyshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/ff-report-8-16-08.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: RSS
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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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