At times, it seems like I carry more eggs than the Easter Bunny! This may sound pathetic to some, but with anadromous fish, you have to keep trying different patterns with different looks and floating orientations to trigger fish to bite—not necessarily feed. Many...
One can imagine the classic model and image of fly fishing, possibly in the style of Norman Maclean: spring creek browns with size 18 BWO duns, freestone streams with size 10 golden stones, or down and across swinging with wet flies on a chalk stream. Probably toward...
Once an angler actually fools the fish into taking the fly, the hookset and landing of the fish becomes the focus. I refer to this process as the “nab”. Any aspect of the line (leader or tippet) that was used to fool the fish can be treated separately from the...
As a kid, the first thing I remember about fishing line is the number with an “lb” and “test”. Since I was in America, this of course referred to tensile or breaking strength of this particular fishing line. Back then, our choice for fishing line was more or less...
Sight fishing has been a huge part of fly fishing for quite some time, and I’ve never met any fly fisherman that just detested it. Maybe this is why carp on the fly has become so popular and why it is so much fun. Couple the sight fishing with lots of refusals, and...
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