Category Archives: Fly Fishing
Don’t Tread on my Redd
THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR WHEN TROUT, AS WELL AS OTHER COLD WATER FISH, PUT ON THEIR BARRY WHITE RECORDS, OPEN A BOTTLE OF COURVOISIER AND GET BUSY. Brown trout and brook trout spawn in the fall and rainbow and cutthroats in the spring. Exact...
Georgia Man Catches Trout On Car Key, But Why?
By Louis Cahill WHY IN THE HELL WOULD YOU FISH THAT? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED. TO PROVE A POINT. For some reason this year I have run into more anglers with attitude than usual. Ranging from the dry fly purest who think they walk on the water...
How to Stop the Dreaded Fly Fishing Birds Nest
Does this look familiar? Just about every angler has created this tangled artwork at some point, some more than others. I'm pretty good at untangling knots because I get more practice than the average angler from my guiding, but even this one required me to break...
Fly Fishing: Float N’ Fly Rig for the Fly Rod
This past week I wrote a fly fishing tactics post for targeting bass on reservoirs during the fall. At the tail-end of the post, I touched base on how effective a Float N' Fly Rig (basically a nymphing rig on my fly rod) can be...
Steelhead, Karma and the Art of Showing Up
I know of no more mystifying fish than the steelhead. Everything about anadromous steelhead is a mystery. An esoteric exercise in chaos theory beginning with an inexplicable choice to swim to the ocean and ending with an equally mystifying decision to eat a swung fly. The...