Category Archives: *Recycle
18 Tips For Tying Better Streamers
Once you start fishing streamers, you never go back. If you are a streamer flinger, you know it the first time you tie one on. You huck and duck and strip and the next thing you know you're spending long whisky fueled nights bent over the...
Practice Your Fly Casting With A Plan
I believe that most fly anglers don't practice their casting because they don't really know how. Most anglers count on fishing time to improve their casting. Fishing and practicing are two very different things and if you are working on your cast while fishing, you're not...
Is That Fly a Nymph? A Look At Insect Life Cycles
I'm not generally one to engage in exercises of semantics but I believe there is more at stake here than clarity of the word. I know that when I first became aware of midge patterns many years ago, I was reluctant to fish them because...
Handling An Anchor Safely And Easily
Too many anglers don't understand how dangerous a boat anchor can be. I was talking to a good friend the other day about an auto accident he was in. He was T-boned at an intersection while towing his drift boat. His wife was in the passenger...
Careful What You Ask For
All fish are not created equal. It's funny how what we want out of fly fishing changes over the years. We've all heard the story, I want to catch a fish, I want to catch a lot of fish, I want to catch a big fish......