Be Nice To Your Fly Rod
A friend recently purchased a new fly rod and broke it while casting the first day out. When I asked him if he
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fly fishing tips
Length of Casts
Experienced anglers know it is best to never cast further than is necessary to keep from scaring the fish when in freshwater. Excessively
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Drag Free Dry Fly Drift
I have been doing a great amount of experimenting this year with many different casts that are helpful in throwing slack line casts
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Quick Water
Heavy rains that last less than a day but deposit two or three inches of rain definitely cause our rivers to become too
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Riffle Hitch
Last year at my son’s encouragement, we started experimenting with the “Riffle Hitch” technique for smallmouth bass which I used many years ago
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Healthy Trout
Many beginning trout anglers are amazed to see a nice trout turn belly-up and die when they return him to the stream with
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Cooling Bass Rivers
The smallmouth rivers are cooling and although I am catching nice bass throughout the rivers, I am aware that some of the largest
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Tying a Deer Hair Bass Bug
When I teach my winter fly tying classes, the beginning fly tyers are amazed how quickly they learn to tie great deer hair
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Easy Trout
Now that the Trico hatch is in full swing on our trout streams you can rest assured that these trout probably have examined
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Keep Healthy
When we are floating the smallmouth bass river or climbing the mountain trout stream we usually carry a lunch and drinking water in
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Streamer Success
Here are two simple steps that can easily double the number of successfully hooked fish on your streamer fishing. (1) Always follow the
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The Best Action with Surface Bugs
In order to catch large bass consistently on hard surface bugs it is very important to be able to adjust the bug action
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Reading a Smallmouth River
The most valuable skill a smallmouth angler can develop is learning to read the water accurately. The few minutes spent analyzing a section
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My Helpful Angler’s Calendar
My angler’s calendar is very large, having about two inch square spaces for each date. This allows plenty of space for me to
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Switch-Hand Casting
I have a good friend who injured his right shoulder badly. Since he cast with his right hand he was very disappointed that
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New Angler
“I am new to fly fishing and need advice on rods for freshwater fishing”. This question came in as email and I believe
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Refine Your Smallmouth Fishing
When I wrote my first book Fly Fishing Techniques for Smallmouth Bass an editor with Field and Stream Magazine was very impressed with
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Find Good Trout Fishing
I have a good angling friend who consistently gets very good trout fishing. In
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Dry Fly Refusal
Many trout refusals of dry flies result from one of two problems which can be easily corrected. First the fly may be too
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Fix Those Line Wraps on a Fly Rod
Frequently the wind or an underpowered casts causes the line to form a knot around the upper part of the fly rod. When
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Fly Fishing Tip: Cleaning and Caring for your fishing flies – Murray’s Fly Shop
By carefully steaming a dry fly that has been used you can easily restore the hackle This is a good time of the
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Quick Fly Fishing Tip: Learn to tie the Improved Clinch Knot
This Quick Fly Fishing Tip: Learn to tie the Improved Clinch Knot and you will have mastered one of the strongest and most
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Large Bass Go Deep in Cold Water
As the rivers temperatures drop the bass undergo a mini migration to deeper water which can range from five to eight feet deep.
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Trout Drag
Now that our hatches are starting we need to be very careful when we are fishing dry flies so our flies drift naturally
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Fly Winter Storage
Wise storage of your flies over the winter will assure they will be in good shape when you are ready to fish in
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Tap Strike
When you are fishing streamers across stream in rivers holding large browns you will often get a very fast “tap strike”. This is
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Wrong Direction
When your smallmouth bass fishing is not going well and your catching only a few fish make every tenth cast in the wrong
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Slow Retrieve
I still use the old line – hand twist retrieve occasionally when I want to fish deeply because it compels me to swim
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Dry Clothes
We were on a five mile smallmouth float in July when a day-long rain moved in. Two of the four of us did
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Dangerous Trick
When your fly becomes hooked on a tree limb several feet beyond your reach, there is a great temptation to stick your rod
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How Small a Trout Fly Do I Need?
Fly Fishing Tip: How small of a Trout Fly do I need? To me it depends upon what the trout are feeding upon.
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