I’ve found that the days I miss the most fish are when they’re not all on the same feeding pattern. Times when they’re eating throughout the column and willing to move far and fast for food. Trout in these situations…
There’s a number of nuances that make winter fly fishing different from any other time of year. Most of these stem from just two main facts: the fish are cold, and food sources are both less abundant and smaller. Of…
If you’re looking at diving into the world of tight line tactics, this is probably one of the first questions you asked. At first glance this seems straightforward. If you’re going to Euro nymph, you need a Euro nymphing line…
This is part three of the New York regional series. Click here to read about session one, here for session two, and here for session three. Limestone creek was my least favorite venue in the competition. The section we fished was mostly fresh stocked brown trout,…
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…
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