Safety Tips While Fly Fishing
Don’t let one mistake ruin your day. Follow this advice for safe and fun fly fishing adventures.
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How To Fly Fish
After the Strike: 3 Keys to Landing Big Trout
Landing trophy trout takes practice. Unfortunately, experience losing big fish is often the best teacher, but with these three tips, you can reduce the learning curve and get more trophy trout into the net.
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Fishing and Tying the Walt’s Worm Euro Nymph
At this juncture, the merits of Walt’s Worm are no longer classified information. As a matter of fact, knowledge of the effectiveness of this simple and humble fly pattern from Pennsylvania has extended far beyond my home state’s borders. A quick Google search to purchase this pattern online will bring the internet shopper to stores
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Egg Patterns for Trout: Best Colors, Sizes, When, and How to Fish Them
Overall, I’d consider myself a little late to the egg game. When I first started fly fishing, Glo Bugs and Sucker Spawn seemed the rage, but using these flies often failed to consistently produce as many trout as I’d hoped, and quite honestly, I found that a good Prince Nymph or Pheasant Tail Nymph produced
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Knots to Know for Cold Weather Fly Fishing
When fly fishing in cold weather, it’s important to learn how to tie strong knots very quickly. This article discusses three of our favorites.
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Fly Reel Care and Maintenance
With proper maintenance and care, a high quality fly reel can last more than a lifetime. The steps outlined in this article are easy to follow and ensure your reel remains functioning for many years to come.
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Fly Fishing with a Spinning Rod
It seems blasphemous to use a fly with spinning gear, and maybe even a little hypocritical for the “serious” fly angler to consider. But in the right situation, fly fishing with a spinning rod can be downright effective. My first experience fishing flies with spinning gear was almost 25 years ago, in my late teens,
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How to Get Started Fly Fishing…On A Budget!
Hobbies can be expensive, and fly fishing is no different. Good gear isn’t cheap, and the longer you fly fish, and the more involved you get in the sport, the more expensive that gear will tend to be. However, just getting started in fly fishing doesn’t have to break the bank. You can still get
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How to Remove Memory from Your Fly Line and Leader
The longer a fly line or leader sits unused, the more likely it is to develop memory. This memory is usually in the form of tight coils from being stored on a reel or, as is the case with leaders, tightly wound in packages on store shelves. Fortunately, no matter how bad the memory is,
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When Should Fly Line be Changed?
In this post, you will learn when it’s time to change your fly line as well as how to make sure your fly line lasts for many years to come.
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