Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âNo fisherman ever fishes as much as he wantsâ¦this is the first great rule of fishing, and it explains a world of otherwise inexplicable behavior.â â Geoffrey Norman
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Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Water is the driving force in nature." - Leonardo da Vinci
The current snow water equivalent for the Big Wood, Little Wood, and Big Lost rivers is at around 170% of average. Simple tr...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Water is taught by thirst." - Emily Dickinson
Due to the warm weather and rain over the last week, the low altitude snow has started to melt. Our freestones and tail-waters are alread...
Arezzo, Perugia, Firenze, Siena, Roma, Tuscany, Italy Tail Water Tevere
Near the town of Sansepolcro, the Tevere flows through the Tuscan countryside (about 1,5 hours south of Florence). Below the Montedoglio Dam, the...
Tuscany, Italy Fly Fishing The Tail Water Tevere by Heidi Schambra
Luca Castellani Flu Fishing Guide
The day began with roosters crowing, brilliant sun cresting the Tuscan hilltops, and a density of fog collected on ...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Two things are certain this year, there will be an extended high water season when the snow starts melting; the timing and the magnitude of the peak flows are unknown at this time, and t...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States "A year of snow, a year of plenty."
â French Proverb
The snow pack in the Big Wood drainage is currently at 172% of average and still has the potential to climb heading into spring....
Mörön, Inner Mongolia, Mongolia Mongolia has some of the best fisheries in the world for giant taimen and the Delgar-Morron river has been known for many years as one of the best rivers for it. The weather througho...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "With melted snow I boil fragrant tea.â
â Mencius
The snow keeps coming. As of February 6th, the Big Wood Basin is at 144% of average and the Little Wood and Big Lost are no...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "There is no bad weather, only inappropriate clothing."
â Sir Ranulph Fiennes
Rain, snow, sleet, inversions: we have seen it all this winter. Fortunately, when the weather is bad...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "...this winter I'm determined to for once fish sensibly, and by that I mean in comfort, to try not only to match the hatch but also to match the weather."
â Tom Sutcliffe, MD
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Sheffield, United Kingdom Its has been a while since my last trip to the river, Way to long in fact!! So I decided that on the last day of 2016 I would get out and travel to the river in the hope of catch a few grayling....
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "The angling fever is a very real disease and can only be cured by the application of cold water and fresh untainted air."
â Theodore Gordon
For some, the concept of winter fly f...
Gorenjska region, Slovenia Day to remember
It was day to remember for Karl, Niko and his son Oscar from Austria... They came for two days of guided fishing with me. On a first day we fished at renown chalk stream Uni...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âI salute the gallantry and uncompromising standards of wild trout, and their tastes in landscapes.â
â John Madson
If it is true that your surroundings shape your thoug...
Bistra, Central Slovenia, Slovenia Dry fly madness at the river Bistra nad Ljubljanica!
It was all about dry fly with this three Norwegian friends ... And we couldn't imagine better start, as it came out at the river ...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Fishing is like that. It keeps you off balance, surprises you. It takes humility to learn, to accept that you may need a lesson or two even in your advanced stage of enlightenment."
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Ketchum, Idaho, United States âThere is time to go long, time to go short and time to go fishing.â
â Jesse Livermore
Fly Fishermen understand anticipation; after all, our sport is predicated by watchin...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "For the supreme test of a fisherman is not how many fish he has caught, not even how he has caught them, but what he has caught when he has caught no fish." â John H. Bradley
The...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "There is only one thing wrong with a fishing day-- its staggering brevity." â Zane Grey
The experience of time while fly fishing is somewhere between "a watched pot never boils" ...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Fishing is fundamentally a game of chance, and at heart we are all gamblers." - Dorothy Noyes Arms
Fly fishing is often rife with uncertainty, ambiguity, and misadventure. These are t...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "The poetry of the sport hooked me long before I learned the prose." - Judy Muller
There are those who fish with precision, making each cast direct and to the point. And there are thos...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Never throw a long line when a short one will serve your purpose." - Richard Penn
Trout take a fly with astonishing speedâ¦and as quickly as they take it they spit it out. To ens...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Never throw a long line when a short one will serve your purpose." - Richard Penn
Trout take a fly with astonishing speedâ¦and as quickly as they take it they spit it out. To ensu...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States âTHERE IS NO TAKING TROUT IN DRY BREECHES.â â Cervantes
September is a magical time on the waters around the Wood River Valley. The days are getting shorter, the nights coo...
Picabo, Idaho, United States "Failing to prepare is preparing to fail." ~ John Wooden
It is as true in fly fishing as it is in basketball. A successful fly fishing outing is dependent on preparation. If you are planin...
Picabo, Idaho, United States "Dave was never on time for work. He was always early." ~ Terry Ring
That is because it wasn't work for Dave; it was his passion. Let's all try to be a little more like Dave. Whether at wo...
Radovna, Slovenia Fly fishing in Slovenia with Urko Fishing Adventures
Extended weekend in early season with my client from England.
We had a blast while we were fly fishing at some of the most beautiful rivers in Slovenia. Gla
Belluno, Veneto, Italy Dolomites grand slam!
After a super delicious dinner with a typical foods such as pasta and speck, meal and super fine wine and a great sleeping in chalet we got ready for this particular experie...
Belluno, Veneto, Italy Grand slam of dolomites
3 different species, 3 different rivers and 3 different approaches
Graylings, browns and the elusive marble trout in only one day!
Started to fly fish on a really cryst...
Auronzo di Cadore, Veneto, Italy That has been at the 1st place of the most memorable day of this fishing season.
Actually we have different fishing chance, dry fly and nymphs fishing during all the day, because on the ...
United Kingdom Out after my first trout of the new season. I wake up to a miserable morning with rain lashing down on the bedroom window. Nothing was going to put me off though.
I arrive to the river and luckily the r...
Belluno, Veneto, Italy What a Pre-easter Day!!!
No wind, sun, warm temperature, crystal clear water, lots of nice graylings sourranded by snowy mountains and Tre cime di Lavaredo not so far!
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Kamnik, Slovenia On our two â days fly fishing on KamniÅ¡ka Bistrica River, through the town of Kamnik, Janko caught his first fish on fly fishing rod and fulfilled his long wish.
Janko, has quickly understand ...
Bohinnjska Bistrica, Gorenjska region, Slovenia It was cold morning in November and fly fishing season is almost at the end. But Sava Bohinjka is still open for fly fishing till end of November, so me and my father went ...
United Kingdom I woke up to a beautiful autumn morning and decided I would go for my first un-guided fishing trip to a river I had never fished before. I had received a few bits of information from a friend about where t...
Bistra, Central Slovenia, Slovenia Just short description: Brian had a blast! :)
Let the photos tell the story.
Bistra River is managed by Angling Club Vrhnika
Urko Fishing Adventures
Radovljica, Slovenia It was a beautiful sunny afternoon on Sava Bohinjka river, that is managed by our fishing club Radovljica. In these parts we only catch and then release fish without barbs on hooks. Fish population i...
Zelezniki, Gorenjska region, Slovenia Selška Sora, is a stretch of water exceptionally well inhabited by trout, predominantly brown trout and rainbow trout. In its upper reaches is more reminiscent of a mountain strea...
Ljubno, Savinja region, Slovenia Just few hours at river, but that was few quality hours on this alpine gem. Rainbows, brownies and graylings were all over the place. Most of them was caught on dry flies.
Savinja Rive...
Planina, Notranjska region, Slovenia Another superb fly-fishing day on the river Unica. Once again it proved that Unica River is one of the best grayling and brown trout rivers in Slovenia, if not in Europe.
This time...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âChoosing to save a river is more often an act of passion than of careful calculation. You make the choice because the river has touched your life in an intimate and irreversible way...
Bistra, Central Slovenia, Slovenia Our second day on the river Bistra. In the morning we enjoyed the excellent sight fishing. We caught a lot of nice grayling and brown trout. However, the highlight was Andy's trophy chu...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âFor me, sport is actually a chance for us to have other human beings push us to excel.â ~ Mr. Keating from Dead Poet Society
Bosnia was very good to Fly Fishing Team USA! We...
Slovenia Beside the Holy trinity, in Slovenia we have also a different kind of threesome, a fly fishing trinity; three rivers whose landscape they run through, diversity of water flow and smartly couscous fish rank them ...
Planina, Notranjska region, Slovenia One of the highlights with my guests was fly fishing on the beautiful river Unica. All day fishing has resulted that we caught countless of big graylings and brownies. And in the even...
Bistra, Central Slovenia, Slovenia First day with my guests Andy and Will on the river Bistra. We spent a few hours on the river and caught some very nice graylings and brownies ... Not bad for the first day! ;)
Bistr...
Alta, Finnmark, Norway Att Fiska i Finnmark var ett riktigt upplevelse som varar livet ut. Jag och två vänner har fiskat i området i som ligger 8o km norr om Alta. Om man vill uppleva fisket i verkliga vildmark ...
kranj, kranj, Slovenia Flyfishing in Slovenia
From the perspective of a fishing guide i try to teach people how to re-cast, how to nimph, how the fish takes etc. Flyfishing in Slovenia with me as a fishing guide can b...