Flymen Blog
Sight fishing for bonefish, permit, or redfish is one of my favorite things in life.
It combines many of the visual pleasures of fly fishing with some of the toughest technical challenges, creating a scenario in which so much needs to come together perfectly to be successful.
Travelling to a beautiful tropical location and searching for an almost invisible, elusive quarry among endless sand flats, palm trees, mangroves and crystal clear water is incredibly relaxing.
Then add the heightened sense of anticipation, the sudden jolt and adrenaline rush as you first sight the fish – heart pounding, panic setting in, and of course the pressure! Pressure from your guide, your buddy, and yourself to put together the perfect cast at the perfect time to deliver your fly to the perfect spot in the hope (or prayer) that you'll be rewarded.
So much fun!
The idea for the Fish-Skull® Shrimp & Cray Tail™ first came to me during one of these trips to the Bahamas in late 2014. Out on a flats boat in the middle of nowhere, but somewhere between my fourth bonefish and third Kalik of the day, the idea formed to create an alternative to the established fly tying method of using bead chain eyes or small dumbbells to weight shrimp or small crayfish patterns. Continue reading
When I started fly fishing tide pools along the West Coast, there wasn’t any information about how to go about fly fishing these areas.
After much trial and error, I eventually started finding success using a mix of techniques from various aspects of fishing, which opened up an exciting and diverse new area to explore using a fly rod.
Hopefully this article will help ease the learning curve into this great and ever-changing fishery!
As a woman, when you gain a little weight you have 3 options:
- You can lose it.
- You can just deal with it and not do a thing.
- You can buy one of those horrific sucker-inner-things that make you look 10,000 times thinner but make you cry trying to imagine how to pee out of it.
And your poor fly has to worry about the same thing. Well, not the peeing part.
You have 3 choices when tying your fly:
- It can lose the weight and sacrifice action.
- It can stay big and bulky and sacrifice appearance.
- You as a fly tyer can conceal the weight.
Here are my favorite techniques to conceal weight in a fly without sacrificing appearance, or running up a Nordstrom card on some fly spanx. Continue reading
by Brita Fordice
You sat up late last night tying the perfect baitfish pattern in hopes of finally hooking the elusive beast that's been refusing all your fly patterns to date.
You tie your fly on, throw your first cast, and strip, strip...
“What the ^*%}?!”
Your fly is swimming like a belly up version of the goldfish you won at the fair in 5th grade.
What went wrong?
Here are the top 3 reasons why your baitfish pattern is swimming wrong.
by Gordon Churchill
You're fly fishing for false albacore and the fish are coming in fast and furious. People all around you are hooking up. You are not.
Why?
It's frustrating as being the last guy in the line to get cake and they run out as soon as it's your turn.
Don't despair – here are 4 things to pay attention to that you may not be.