Every year across the U.S. (and much of the world), millions of trout are stocked into rivers, streams, and lakes by government agencies and private landowners. These fish, commonly referred to as “stockers”, are raised in hatcheries from eggs to…
A debate I’ve heard on and off since I started fly fishing is whether to use a trailer rig with the heavy fly as a dropper, or a standard rig with it on point. Most anglers tend to prefer the…
It’s not often these days that someone builds a fly rod company from the ground up, rolling their own blanks and assembling everything in house. It’s even less common that the products are truly innovative and can compete with the…
Wind is the mortal enemy of a good day euro nymphing. There is no worse or more difficult condition of fish through, period. It stunts your casts, makes it difficult to get slack into your presentations, and messes with…
Micro Leaders have been all the rage in the euronymphing world for at least the last four or five years. They’ve quickly become the way the majority of anglers around the world are fishing, and for good reason- they…
The Origins of the CDC France l The France fly has a long and successful history in competitive fly fishing. Originally created by a youth angler at a World Youth Fly Fishing Championship in France over a decade ago,…
The Perfection Loop is one of the most popular knots in fly fishing. It’s widely used by anglers for loop-to-loop connections of fly lines and leaders, so much so that virtually every factory tapered leader comes with a pre-tied…
The Walt’s Worm is one of the simplest and most effective nymphs ever created. It’s buggy, suggestive, fast to tie, and deadly in nearly every river system. This version sits halfway between a classic Walt’s and a Sexy Walt’s—with…
In competitive fly fishing, anglers aren’t free to fish whatever rigs and tactics they like. There is a set of rules, put together by the international governing body of competitive fly fishing, FIPS Mouche, they must follow. These rules dictate…
For Pennsylvania’s brown trout, fall means one thing — the spawn. It kicks off around Halloween and peaks through November, when the year’s biggest fish move into the shallows. We get fish on some rivers trying to get it going…
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