Fly Fishing in Shenandoah National Park
Don’t let one mistake ruin your day. Follow this advice for safe and fun fly fishing adventures.
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Spring Steelhead Trip 2025 – Don’t Miss It!
Following the success of our November 2024 group steelhead trip…we’ve decided to do it again! Dark Skies Fly Fishing is teaming up with Mountain Laurel Guide Service and Captain Kurt’s Charters to host a fully guided group trip for steelhead March 2-5, 2025 This is prime time for fishing in the spring steelhead run on Ohio’s
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Ohio Steelhead: Fat Fish in Skinny Water
When I was a kid living in Western New York, I remember a news report about the Cuyahoga River in Ohio, a tributary of Lake Erie, catching on fire. Even to an elementary schooler, the idea of water being aflame was pretty fantastical. Back then, the vast Lake Erie was biologically dead. Thankfully, the Cuyahoga
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Michigan’s Au Sable Brown Trout After Dark…On Dry Flies!
This could get confusing if I don’t first explain that the Au Sable River in upstate Michigan is 700 miles from the Ausable River in New York State. Notice that the river in Michigan is correctly spelled with a space left between the u and capitalized “S”, whereas the similarly named river in the Empire
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Fly Fishing in Elk Country
The town of Benezette may be known as the heart of Pennsylvania elk country, but it’s also a great staging point for some of the area’s best trout fishing. Here you’ll find a variety of streams offering abundant opportunities for both stocked and native fish. The cornerstone waterway is Bennett’s Branch of Sinnemahoning Creek,
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West Virginia’s Elk River: Wild (Trout) Wonderful
Don’t get me wrong, I love me some stout-shouldered stockers on the fly from time to time. It’s still fly fishing after all, and stocked trout can be challenging, even frustrating, if they’ve seen their share of flies. But, if given the chance, I’ll take chasing even a smallish wild trout on a natural, crazy-currented,
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New York’s West Branch Ausable River, A Pickpocket’s Dream
West Branch Ausable River is one of New York’s premier trout fisheries.
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Fly Fishing Patagonia: Stripping Streamers for Big Browns on the Chimehuin River
The Chimehuin River in Patagonia, Argentina, is one of the best fly fishing destinations in the world for big brown trout.
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Fly Fishing Buffalo Creek, Virginia
You don’t hear much about Buffalo Creek in the various Virginia fishing forums or on social media, but fly fishing phenoms (and friends) Joe Irby and Derek Hutton have been trying to get me to come down to wet a line in the stream for quite a while. I was interested, but, like everyone else
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Three Classic Trout Streams in the Cumberland Valley
The Cumberland Valley is home to some of the best limestone trout streams in Pennsylvania. This article discusses three that you will want to fish again and again!
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