Flymen Blog
This fly is effective on pressured fish who need a little more reason to eat — especially in slow moving water when pressured fish have a long time to look at flies before they commit to eating.
Just as The Sexy Walt’s and The Frenchie are simply tied patterns, so are these quill-bodied bugs.
One of the hallmarks of these simple flies is that there’s not a lot of junk on them to keep the fly from cutting through the water on its descent to the bottom. All that extra junk on flies can also spook fish hooked too many times for their own comfort. Continue reading
One of my favorite things about fly fishing is the extent to which fly anglers use their passion for fly fishing to give voice to their personal platforms for community service and civic engagement.
We’re able to give back so substantially when we draw together the threads of our many networks.
Here are 3 ways you can get involved and use fly fishing as your platform to make a difference. Continue reading
If you’re an egg-slinger and don’t have a box full of Jeff Blood’s Blood Dot Eggs, you might want to rethink your inventory.
This egg style is the single best I’ve encountered.
This fly is especially productive from October through January and March through May – or whenever the fish in your neck of the woods are spawning and eggs make up a substantial portion of the edible biomass in the water. Continue reading
It doesn't matter what happens in the fashion industry – when it comes to fly fishing, there's no new black.
We've all heard it!
"Orange is the new black," or "purple is the new black," or even that olive would be the new black.
Don't get me wrong – I know there are a lot of colors that are really effective in different types of flies. I love throwing white deceivers to snappers and other saltwater species, and big olive flies to pike, not to mention fishing a banana-colored zonker for salmon or a big gray articulated streamer for trout.
There are so many colors that are important when it comes to flies and fly tying, but none more important than black. Continue reading
Angler overcrowding and fishing pressure aren't limited to just weekends. Any given weekday can look like a Saturday during peak salmon season.
With this overcrowding comes the question of how close is too close to fish next to someone?
Here are 6 easy things to consider when someone is occupying water you think holds fish. Continue reading