Flymen Blog
Forget the Squirmy. Forget the egg flies. The Mop Fly is the most sinful fly of all time.
You’ve seen them – you’ve seen the chenille fingers coming off an array of products these days, from dust mops to car washing aids to teddy bears to throw pillows. You can clip these off their backing and have a killer fly if you lash those fingers to a hook.
When I graduated college in May of 2015 and shared with my peers that I was going to be working for a non-profit conservation organization to work with college fly fishing clubs nationwide, I got a variety of responses ranging from, “Whoa, that's sick,” to, “What are you doing with your life?”
Many of my peers in college viewed fly fishing as an old guy sport, with their closest mental image being Brad Pitt “shadow casting” on the banks of the Bitterroot in A River Runs Through It.
Little did they know, fly fishing is actually a growing sport in the millennial generation.
Many of us who tie flies and have children would love to see them take up the hobby.
If you aren’t a parent, maybe you have some young relatives or know some local youngsters who have shown an interest in fly tying.
Time spent tying with kids can be fun, productive, and higher quality than most people think.
Before you go down that road, here are a handful of things to keep in mind.
From a single hook to a triple-articulated beast...
Loads of movement, loads of kick – Kris Keller's 3 Pack Shaker is one killer streamer pattern.
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!