For a fly-fisherman, matching the hatch is a big deal…in fact, for any fisherman, matching the hatch is important. In the fly fishing world we tend to get carried away…there are those who tie the smallest of flies, all the way down to size 30 and 32. You probably don’t know sizing but picture a [...] Read more »
Water Clarity
Friday, April 26th was much like other Fridays at school…but it was the end of a pretty long week and through most of the week it had been wet and when combined with busy, well that meant that I had not been fishing since the previous weekend. I drove the old red Suburban to school [...] Read more »
Tips for Fly Fishing Creeks
I am currently reading a great book entitled “Trout Diaries” by Derek Grzelewski…who as I have come to know is a very interesting chap or bloke as they might call him down under in New Zealand. Derek discusses in one of the first chapters, the river ‘of your dreams’ and goes into great detail what [...] Read more »
Video – Landing a Smallmouth in January
The video you are going to watch was shot on January 4th here in southern Indiana. It is obviously cold, as you can tell from the snow in the background. It is a good shot of how slow to fish a pool, especially in the winter. As you will notice just before the fish strikes….I [...] Read more »
Crayfish Patterns – Give Them a Slow Go – Now
If you are a small creek or river fisherman like I am….now is the time as the past couple weeks has been very good….seems like the smallies and spotted bass are putting on the feed bag. Crayfish seems to be the only pattern! I have tried other things but keep going back to the fact [...] Read more »
