Flymen Blog
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.
If you love musky and musky fishing, then you MUST see this epic Flymen-sponsored film featuring Flymen guide Michael McNaught with Jay Newell, Chris Pfohl, and Kim Rood as they chase musky in Canada.
Catch the whole film at the 2016 International Fly Fishing Film Festival – IF4.
by Ryan Kaufman
With fly fishing, as with anything in life, people develop habits and preferences.
There’s the dry fly enthusiast. This person is the true purist. If you’re not enticing a fish to eat on the surface you’re not even really fly fishing. Conversations about shuck materials and wing placement can go on for hours. It’s "dry or die" and bamboo all the way.
There's the Euro-nympher. This person is out to put a hole in the lip of every fish in the stream. They regard the FIPS-Mouche competition rules as the bible and tungsten beads as their savior. They don kneepads and use nets with huge hoops.
And then there are those who stay up till the wee hours of the morning drinking and attaching more feathers, hair, and flash to a size 4 hook or bigger than you can shake a 10 foot 3 weight at.
The visual experience of watching a big fish chase down and crush a big fly is what keeps the blood pumping through their veins.
These are the streamer junkies.
Are you a streamer junkie?
If any of the following 5 signs apply to you... you might be a streamer junkie.
by Brian Shumaker
Whether you're just starting out or are an experienced smallmouth fly angler, here are 3 things to think about to increase your odds if your success rate isn’t what you expect it to be.
by Tim O'Neill
Yogi Berra once famously said “90% of the game is half mental.”
Of course Mr. Berra was talking about the great game of baseball, but the thought process is spot on for fly fishing.
Fly fishing, like baseball, requires a level of mental involvement. You can have all the new gear, tons of flies, and fish the best waters in your area, but if your confidence level isn’t at its highest you may be in for a long day. The trick is how do you get and keep your confidence up as you go through a day or a week of fishing?
Here are a few tips that help me fish at my best and I hope they'll help you.