In my opinion, it was about time somebody designed a fly line specifically for the musky angler, ESPECIALLY one that comes in a 500gr. Boy was I happy to see that Scientific Anglers was coming out with a line for this year, especially since my previous “musky” line was near […]
Welcome back! You fine folks are in for a treat today, as I want to share with you how to tie up a Golden Rowley Stone. This was my most productive stonefly pattern last season, leading to big fish with big appetites. For this fly I took the traditional Rowley […]
“This one’s worth dying for, I’m jumping in!” These were the words of my friend, Mike, just before leaping in to a stream on New Zealand’s North Island in an insane attempt to corral a 30” brown trout. The words were actually a prelude to his second brush with death […]
Golden dorado might be my favorite target species, so when the opportunity came to fish the Upper Parana River in October I headed south to Argentina for some southern hemisphere spring fishing. I had fished twice before with the outfitter, Parana on the Fly (paranaonthefly.com) in the autumn, but this […]
Switch rods are a concept that has become more mainstream for many people and locations in the past few years. Traditionally they were brought into creation for the use of spey casting in places where full spey rods were too large, however they’re growing in popularity because many are realizing […]
If you are reading these articles in order you have now acquired a rod and reel. The remainder of necessary equipment can either be a few simple things or more stuff than your closet can hold. We are here to talk about the former: keeping it simple. Why is it […]
The 14th annual Fly Fishing Film Tour is hitting the road and headed to Salt Lake City with a fresh catch of new films. Featuring exclusive shorts from our friends coast to coast, and beyond, we’ll tell the stories of everything from fishing guide fairytales, to serial steelhead semantics, canyon […]
The Brule River X-Legs is an absolute must-have pattern for chasing Lake Superior steelhead on the famous Brule River in northern Wisconsin. It has caught countless fish under an indicator, even as a swung fly, and is one of the most popular stonefly patterns in the area. It works not […]
I desperately want to become a better musky fisherman. While all the amazing trout fishing of the intermountain west often distracts me, I made dedicated attempts at catching musky during the past three years. After several mostly unsuccessful attempts at tiger musky this summer, I realized that I am a […]
Being from Minnesota, I’ve never been a huge trout fisherman. I’ve always been more focused on the warmwater species that are abundant in my area, that I grew up fishing for and that I’ll always enjoy targeting. (Not to say there isn’t any trout fishing around here whatsoever, but as […]
I once heard “As fly fishers, we are all inherently conservationists.” The quote resonated with me as I grew up thinking I was environmentally conscience. Through research and discussion I learned that I was off the mark from a young age. It provoked thoughts in my head that I have […]
In the summer of 2010, three friends set off on an adventure of a lifetime. With only a British Columbia backroads map book and the ability to read, we hit the road for uncharted waters. There was no rhyme or reason to the trip, other than the fact we wanted […]