This nice 12 inch smallmouth bass decided a Chartreuse Shenandoah Chuggar looked interesting enough to eat! Notice the Redbud tree in the background [...]

Buggy looking flies catch fish. Fancy looking flies catch fishermen. [...]

When you are tying your own flies use very snug tight thread wraps to hold all of the materials in place. This, more [...]

Southwestern Montana presently has 100% to 110% of the normal snow pack. Anglers there believe this will afford better stream levels than they [...]

Experienced anglers know there are two types of waders, those that leak and those which are about to leak. [...]

Wade especially carefully when fishing small shallow streams. When you fall when wading deep water you get wet; but when you fall in [...]

In order to assure strong knots replace your tippet material from 0X down to 7X each year. This could save the largest fish [...]

After a sermon on the fallacies of superstitions reverend Ben Coe replied to a query from his fishing partner about his practice of [...]

When making long casts with large underwater flies you will improve your percentage of solidly hooked fish if you set the hook quickly [...]

If you are tired of having your split shot slide up or down your leader from where you put them there is a [...]

“Oh, I can’t believe I did that,” was the embarrassed utterance of the beginning angler in my fly fishing school when he hooked [...]

Check out American Rivers. Get involved to help protect our nations rivers. They have a good newsletter if you are interested in joining, [...]

As the rivers warm in April the large bass get hungry. Hit them with deep running nymphs and streamers and you just might [...]

I knew the young spin fisherman was serious about getting into fly fishing when he asked me if I could teach him to [...]

A good friend consistently catches more large trout than most anglers. When I asked him how he did this he said “I never [...]

A friend says when the canoes crowd him on the smallmouth rivers he just puts his back to them and makes very low [...]

I was fishing beside a good friend on the Madison River when I heard him exclaim, “Oh no”. Looking at the river I [...]

The concerned angler called and asked, “I want to take some flash photos of trout but since they don’t have eyelashes will this [...]

After my slide show for a group of would-be fly anglers a real nice lady on the front row asked sincerely, “How do [...]

How many of you believed that the intersexed fish found in the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers over the past few years were a [...]

Southwest Montana has a good snow pack which will provide good fishing this year so make your plans now. Call me (540-984-4212) if [...]

Yesterday my son Jeff, caught several bass on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River running up to 18 inches. Hit the deep [...]

A glimpse of the water coming down the North Fork of the Shenandoah River from the USGS Stream Gauge at Cootes Store, VA. [...]

In order to tie your flies so they are durable be sure to make firm thread wraps with your bobbin in each step [...]

Yesterday was beautiful and today is forecast to be even better. I had to try the river yesterday afternoon and was well pleased [...]

I’ll be doing a slide show and lecture on Getting Started in Fly Fishing at the Strasburg, Va Library on March 10 at [...]

If you find you are missing some strikes on streamers with your longest casts try setting the hook with both your line hand [...]

The storm missed us so there will be some good trout fishing this weekend with nymphs and streamers. On overcast afternoons watch for [...]

I finally had a chance to use the new Scott S4 907/4 (9ft. #7 4pc.) rod. It is truly an outstanding rod with [...]

Yesterday was beautiful so we had to get out and play a little. One fallfish and several chubs on dry flies – no [...]

Just in time to get back to work, winter weather has returned. It was good to see many old friends and meet a [...]

Ice, pretty but it sure seems to cause a lot of work – which of course gets in the way of important things [...]

Beautiful weather has blessed the Shenandoah Valley after the ice storm Thursday and Friday. I have picked up all of the downed limbs [...]

At this time of the year many trout anglers are big fish hunting. Over the past year we’ve looked at some of the [...]

A good friend proved that an unimproved boat launch this fall was an Off Road adventure. It required some tricky navigating and balancing [...]

As I drove to the Shop this morning I noticed many of the yards devoid of snow. The forecast says the thermometer will [...]

Photographing the winter has provided quite an enjoyable fill in for the lack of productive fishing. Not from lack of trying. But photographing [...]

Saturday’s Trout Class at the fly shop reminded me of several things; some things I need to do, some need to be fixed, [...]

Beautiful weather blessed us over the past several days and far be it from us to ignore such a blessing! The fishing was [...]

Cabin fever received a kick in the shorts yesterday!! I fished a local trout stream and even though the water temperature was 38 [...]

As a pharmacist by profession I guess I am a little late disclosing this information. Check out this link, put the information to [...]

Winter fishing at its finest! I have not been on the water a lot this week with the cold snap we are about [...]