A few weeks back my friends at Cortland asked me to write up an overview of competitive fly fishing for the company blog. I think it ended up being a pretty good intro for those that aren’t familiar with the…
This is part three of the New York regional series. Click here to read about session one, and here for session two. Butternut Creek was my most frustrating session of the competition. I had fished it before but I could not remember having ever…
This is part two of the New York Regional recap series. To read about session one, click here. Lower Nine Mile was a hit or miss venue. We walked the beats in practice and all agreed they got significantly worse as…
I just returned home from my first Team USA Regional event of the season in Central New York, and though I didn’t finish quite as high as I was hoping to, it was a great competition with a great group…
**I should point out that, being a competitive angler, I have an obvious bias in favor of competitions. Despite this I think I have done a decent job understanding and examining both sides of the argument. I have also asked…
This past weekend I competed in a one day mini competition on Nine Mile Creek in central New York. It was a fun competition with a lot of good anglers and a lot of fish, so I wanted to do…
I first began using the stopper system as I described it below back in 2017. It worked well for me as it was and served its purpose for a long time. In 2024 my teammate Michael Bradley got me to…
You know when you’re on the water trying to place a cast right up the edge of a seam, and the fly keeps kicking to one side? No matter what you do the fly keeps missing the target, by a…
Here in PA we have had a pretty brutal summer that’s been hard on a lot of our streams. Low water and high temps have been confining most of my fishing to mornings and evenings on just a few local…
Over the last few years I have gotten to fish with hundreds of different anglers. Whether I’m out with a beginner or a world champion, I try to learn something from each one. There are plenty of differences between each…
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