Slowing Down and Casting Easier Can Improve Your Fly Cast

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Slowing down and backing off the power will help out your fly cast. Read the title of this post and try to live by it.It's my attempt in "one sentence", to help fly anglers quickly improve their fly casting, and it's made me twice fly caster and...



The Articulated Aggravator and Dubbing Loop Platen

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By Herman deGala As with most of the flies that I design I was trying to solve a problem when I created the Articulated Aggravator. I was looking for a fly that was different from what I was already fishing for smallies, amongst the riprap of a...



Three Ways We Lose Fish

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by Jason Tucker DUSK FALLS SLOWLY ON A JUNE SUMMER EVENING. Zach and I stood knee deep in the tannic flowing water of a Northern Michigan stream, the calls of the day birds urgent as they headed to bed, before the night birds emerged. We waited, the...



Listen to the Fish

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Sometimes all fly fisherman need to do to find success when their not having luck is slow down, and take the time to listen to the fish. Trout can't speak to us in words, but they do often provide us with subtle clues from their behavior...



Camera Care in Saltwater

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My cameras take a beating. On a trip to the Deschutes I dunked my Nikon D300s so badly that when I took the lens off, water poured out of the body. I was sure it was done but I pulled the battery out and set...