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Posts
- Fallfish on the Fly: Discover A Native Super Predator
- The Well Stocked Fly Box for the Big 4 Trout Streams in North Central Pennsylvania
- Euro Nymphing Leaders: Euro Leader Design and How to Build Your Own
- Hallowed Waters: Fly Fishing the Catskills
- Blacknose Dace: The Minnow and the Streamer
- The Mickey Finn: An Effective Streamer with a Unique History
- Euro Nymphing: Purchasing Your First Euro Specific Nymphing Rod
- Fly Fishing the Juniata River
- Choosing and Using the Right Hackle for Fly Tying
- Taylor Fly Fishing: Series-1 Full Frame Reel
- Fall Steelhead Trip 2025 – Don’t Miss It!
- Top 12 Guide Flies and Confidence Flies for Subsurface Trout
- Fishing and Tying the Little Black Stonefly
- Fly Fishing Seneca Creek, WV
- Fly Fishing the Ken Lockwood Gorge, NJ
- Fishing and Tying Perdigons
- The Copper John Nymph
- Fishing and Tying the Picket Pin: A Classic Fly for Trout and Panfish
- Winter Fly Fishing Tactics for Trout
- Back to Basics: Indicator Nymphing
- Fishing and Tying the Golden Retriever Streamer
- Mastering the Mental Game of Fly Fishing
- Review: High N Dry Fishing Products
- Fly Fishing in Shenandoah National Park
- Review: Mr. Ant’s Rods – The Northfork Composite LMX
- Tying with Semperfli Dirty Bug Yarn
- Why Dark Skies Fly Fishing? What Does the Name Mean?
- Fishing Skinny Water: Riffles, Pockets, Side Channels, and Bank Water
- How to Fish and Tie the Letort Cricket
- Fly Fishing with Midges: Best Midge Patterns and How to Fish Them
- How to Fish and Tie the Smokejumper Fly
- Fall Fly Fishing Tactics for Trout
- Review: The Cortland Nymph Series Rod
- Ohio Steelhead: Fat Fish in Skinny Water
- Michigan’s Au Sable Brown Trout After Dark…On Dry Flies!
- Fly Fishing in Elk Country
- How to Fish and Tie the Micro Mayfly
- Best Flies for Fall Fly Fishing for Trout
- How to Fish and Tie the Green Weenie
- How to Fish and Tie the Shop Vac Fly
- Book Review: Modern Spey Fishing by Rick Kustich
- How to Repair Leaky and Torn Waders
- Fishing and Tying the Frenchie Fly
- How to Fish and Tie Flying Ant and Fur Ant Patterns – and When to Fish Them!
- Fishing and Tying the France Fly
- West Virginia’s Elk River: Wild (Trout) Wonderful
- Hooking Power: Wide Gap Versus Standard Gap Fly Tying Hooks
- All About the Connection: How to Connect Fly Line to Leader and Leader to Tippet
- Safety Tips While Fly Fishing
- Chasing Bronzebacks: Fly Fishing for Smallmouth Bass
- After the Strike: 3 Keys to Landing Big Trout
- New York’s West Branch Ausable River, A Pickpocket’s Dream
- Fly Fishing Patagonia: Stripping Streamers for Big Browns on the Chimehuin River
- Fishing and Tying the Walt’s Worm Euro Nymph
- Fly Fishing Buffalo Creek, Virginia
- Best Grannom Caddis Pattern: The Green-Assed Walt’s
- Tying and Fishing Beaded Flies: Colors to Use and When to Use Them
- Three Classic Trout Streams in the Cumberland Valley
- Nymphing for Wild Trout During Central PA’s White Sucker Spawn
- Fishing and Tying the Black Perdigon – Czech Nymph Style!
- Egg Patterns for Trout: Best Colors, Sizes, When, and How to Fish Them
- Fly Fishing Virginia’s Shad Run
- 4 Southwestern PA State Parks for Fly Fishing, Family, and Fun
- Knots to Know for Cold Weather Fly Fishing
- Fly Reel Care and Maintenance
- Fly Fishing with a Spinning Rod
- 4 Northwestern PA State Parks for Fly Fishing, Family, and Fun
- Euro Nymphs: What are They and Why are They So Effective?
- How to Tie the Hare and Copper Variant
- How to Fish and Tie the Baeties Emerger Cripple
- The Art of Fishing Dry Flies in the Rain
- How to Tie the Killer Bug
- How to Hold and Photograph a Trout: Tips for Catch and Release While Still Getting Great Photos to Share
- How to Clean and Preserve Natural Feathers and Furs for Fly Tying
- How to Get Started Fly Fishing…On A Budget!
- How to Remove Memory from Your Fly Line and Leader
- When Should Fly Line be Changed?
- When Should You Change Flies?
- Strategies for Fishing Dry-Dropper and Tandem Fly Rigs
- Ed Shenk: Professor of the Letort
- Fly Tying: Which Head Cement Should I Use?
- Classic Dry Flies: The Royal Coachman
- The Blood Dot Egg…Unscrambled
- Watch: Slate Drakes on a Mountain Stream
- My Top 3 Flies for Steelhead
- Studded or Felt-Lined Wading Boots: Which is Better?
- Tippet Rings: How and When to Use Them
- Check Out the Dark Skies Fly Fishing Channel on YouTube!
- Tough Days are Inevitable: Adjustments to Make When Fish Aren’t Cooperating
- Nymphing Techniques for Great Lakes Steelhead
- Art Weiler Bamboo Rod Reproductions
- George Harvey: The Dean of Fly Fishing
- The Lehigh Fishing Company: Custom Rods, Pennsylvania Made
- Dog Days Brook Trout on a Cameron County Class A Stream
- Watch: How to Tie the Sexy Walt, Rainbow Dubbed Walt, and CDC Walt
- Exploring New Waters: How to Find New Places to Fish and Have A Successful First Trip
- Watch: Reading the Water, Color Changes and Seams
- Is it a Riffle or Run…and Does it Even Matter? Nymphing Approaches for a Specific Water Type
- Fly Fishing Bald Eagle Creek in Centre County
- Watch: Massive Wild Brown Trout Caught and Released!
- Fly Fishing for Smallmouth Bass in Small Streams
- A Good Day on Yellow Creek’s Fly Fishing Only Section
- Dave Wolf: Smallmouth Bass on the Fly are the Way to Go
- Favorite Panfish Flies Top to Bottom
- Review: Ross Reels Animas
- Review: Jennings Net Co’s Hand-Crafted Fishing Nets
- Stimulators and Hoppers: The Art of Fishing Big Dry Flies
- Finicky Trout and BWOs: Matching the Evening Hatch on Pine Creek
- Meadow Run: Beauty and Fly Fishing in the Laurel Highlands
- 6 Tips for Fishing Low, Clear Water
- Journey Through the Endless Mountains: Fishing Towanda Creek
- The Other Pine Creek: Fly Fishing West Branch Pine Creek
- 5 Lessons Learned from Watching Others Fish
- Cleaning Up (Literally) Along Little Kettle Creek
- Fishing and Life: An Afternoon on Kettle Creek
- Fishing First Fork Before, During, and After a Blue Quill Hatch
- The Broken Fly Rod Blues…and How to Fix Them
- Two Stream Guides Now in Print!
- How to Tie and Fish the Mop Fly
- What is a Flybrary?
- Fly Fishing the PA Grand Canyon: The Pine Creek DHALO
- Morning on Pequea Creek
- 5 Tips for Buying Your First Fly Rod
- Do UV Flies Catch More Trout?
- Keystone Select Trout Waters, Seven Years Later
- Top 10 Flies for Winter Fly Fishing in Pennsylvania
- PFBC Announces Significant Addition of Public Fishing Access on Twenty Mile Creek in Erie County
- Fishing and Tying Squirmy Wormy Flies
- Fly Fishing on Kinzua Creek
- Fish this Spot #2: How to Approach Junction Pools
- How to Choose a Fly Reel
- PA’s Forgotten Limestoner: Yellow Creek, Bedford County
- Streamers for Fall Trout
- Fish this Spot #1: How to Approach Small Stream Pools
- 24 Hours on the “Real” Spruce Creek
- Bluegills on the Fly
- Getting Skunked with Dignity: Early Summer Midges
- A Tale of Two Streams: Chasing Drakes
- The Cross Fork Experience
- April Showers Bring…Blue Quills on First Fork!
- Steel City Trout: 3 Pittsburgh Area Streams Worth a Visit
- George B. Stevenson Dam: Fishing, Family, and Fun
- Choosing and Using the Right Fly
- Tips for Tying Killer Egg Patterns
- Favorite Steelhead Flies
- Exploring the Hickory Creek Wilderness
- Hoppers and Droppers, Oh My!
- Bass on the Fly: A Popper Primer
- Is there Really “One Dry Fly Floatant to Rule Them All”?
- Sulphurs in the Rain
- A 3-Stream Tour of the Allegheny National Forest
- In the Fly Box: Walt’s Worm and the Sexy Walt
- Perfect Conditions for Big Trout on Buffalo Creek
- How to Fish Emergers and Cripple Flies
- The Mayfly Project
- Mayfly Life Cycle: From Nymph to Dun to Spinner
- Wild Brown or Stocked? Know the Difference
- Wire to Wire on Spruce Creek
- Home Waters: First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek
- Dry Fly Fishing Tips: 3 Considerations for Drag-Free Drifts
- The April Caddis: Fishing and Tying Grannoms
- Small but Mighty: Fishing the Zebra Midge
- In the Fly Box: Hot Head Woolly Buggers
- Low Water Tactics: Fishing the Buffalo Creek DHALO
- Piney Creek DHALO
- Chillin’ on the Cool Spring Creek DHALO
- Fly Fishing the Oil Creek Region
- Deer Creek DHALO
- Masking Hatches and Selective Trout
- First Casts of A New Season
- Laurel Highlands Trout Trail
- 4 Tips for Fishing with “No See Ums”
- What Does Fly Line Weight Mean?
- Make Mine A Frenchie
- 6 Tips for Tying Better Flies
- Fly Tying: Do’s and Don’ts of Getting Started
- 5 Tips for New Fly Fishers
- Caddisflies Top to Bottom
- Neshannock Creek Revisited
- Dobsonflies and the Fly Fisher
- Gettin’ Stoned: An Introduction to Stoneflies
- Old Vise, New Vise: Upgrading to the Renzetti Presentation 2000 Series
- Ye Olde Gold-Ribbed Hare’s Ear Nymph
- Upper West Branch Susquehanna River
- Ghost Town Trail
- Blue-Lining Fall Trout
- Meet the Zug Bug
- Clarion River and its Tributaries
- Joe Humphreys: A Fly Fishing Legend
- Trickle Trout: Tiny Streams Offer Big Surprises
- First Fork Sinnemahoning Creek
- The Fly Formerly Known As Prince
- White Flies on Yellow Breeches
- Mole Fly Saves the Day: Fisherman Pleased
- Parker Dam State Park
- Tying Fwy Fwies
- One is Good, Two is Better: Using Tandem Rigs
- Slippery Rock Creek
- Exploring New Waters: Spring Creek, PA
- Mop Fly, I Hate You
- East Branch Tunungwant Creek
- Fishing Neshannock Creek
- Swinging Streamers and Wet Flies
- Raccoon Lake, Beaver County PA
- Yellow Creek Lake
- Little Sandy Creek, Venango County PA
- East Hickory Creek
- Early Season on Buffalo Creek
- Fly Fishing for Winter Trout
- Mopping Up November Rain(bows)
- Hooking and Landing Big Fish
- J:Son Flies – Imitations Come to Life
- Fall Brown Fever
- The Amazing Woolly Bugger
- Stream Surveys Shed Light on Coldwater Resources
- Fishing the Upper (Upper) Allegheny River
- The Bugs We Love
- Gettysburg Battlefield Trout Fishing
- The History of Fly-Fishing in Fifty Flies
- Three Flies to Use When Nobody’s Watching
- Kinzua Creek Delayed Harvest
- Beadhead Nymphs and Streamers
- Discovering the White Fly
- Hallowed Waters – Letort Spring Run
- Maps and Apps for Trout Fishing
- An Evening on the Water
- Two Books that Belong on Every Fly Fisher’s Shelf
- Fishing the Yough
- Welcome to Dark Skies Fly Fishing