Understanding fly fishing hook size isn’t the sexiest topic around, but your hook is your link to the fish and is closely related to the size of your flies. Pretty sexy stuff! Well, maybe that’s just me thinking. Most fly anglers’ exposure to fly fishing...
Fly fishing travel has exploded in that last few decades or so like a volcano on a tropical island. The business of taking fly fishing trips has now become forever a competitive enterprise with hundreds of fly shops, outfitters, and various fly fishing luminaries...
There are a million bonefish flies out there, like the incredibly effective Hot Legs Gotcha, so does the world need yet another? Not only are there tons of bonefish flies in general but they’re mostly designed to look like a shrimp, so there all basically in the...
Jim McVay on a trip to Andros Island in the Bahamas developed one of the best bonefish flies of all time, the Gotcha bonefish fly. The Gotcha bonefish fly will work for any place that bonefish swim. Its design is simple, and really should be considered a style, along...
Not many of us can imagine eating at Red Lobster’s Crabfest every day of our lives, and there’s a reason crab meat is so expensive; it’s good!…and crabs are relatively time consuming to catch in high numbers. On the other hand, species like permit, redfish, and...
The majority of fly anglers do not study the origins of fly fishing or have any idea when “fly fishing” began. I, myself, didn’t really become at all interested in the earliest forms of fly fishing until I was crossing the backed-up waters of the...