Category Archives: Fly Fishing Tips & Technique
5 Tips To Stop Breaking Off Bonefish
By Louis Cahill If you're breaking off bonefish, there's probably and easy fix. Someone asked me not long ago about losing bonefish due to tippet breaking. It happens to the best of us but there are only a couple of ways for it to happen and each...
Traditional Old-School Nymphs Catch Trout, Don’t Forget It
By Kent Klewein Are you fishing the hot new fly? Every year, I spend quite a bit of time scouring the interweb and flipping through numerous fly company catalogs, all in the effort to stay up to date with the latest new fly pattern creations. Many are...
Don’t Fly Fish With One Arm If you Have Two
BETTER HIGH-STICKING TECHNIQUE Now that I've got your attention, let's talk about how important it is when high-sticking a fly rod to always utilize both of your arms during your drift. Perfect line management while high-sticking, often boils down to managing inches of fly line and...
Sunday Classic / 2 Ways to Determine the Sex of a Trout
By Kent Klewein Is that trout male or female? One of the things I love most about being a part of Gink & Gasoline, is educating our readers. Today's post, talks about two ways to determine the sex of a trout. Over the years, I've found that...
Saturday Shoutout / Ethics of the Spawn
Fall is the time when dreams of catching trophy brown trout come true. Brown trout are fall spawners. They become increasingly aggressive and easier to target as the spawn approaches. Anglers who want to catch big browns will have their best chance, but they will have...