Boone, North Carolina, United States I fished Sunday morning at Helton Creek. (I guide near Boone, NC as well as Florida's Everglades)The temperature was about 42° when I started and pretty much had the creek to mysel...
Lumsden, Southland, New Zealand EARLY SEASON TRIP WITH MATT AND PUDGE
Matt and Pudge spent 3 days fly fishing with me few seasons back around the Twizel-Omarama region. The boys re-booked last year but had to pull the p...
RÃo Gallegos, Santa Cruz , Argentina An Argentina lover and good spanish speaker, Mr. Lars Ivarsson was joining me and my family for the Route of the spring Creeks. Lars is one of the most relaxed fisherman I know, an...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States
The upper end of Sullivanâs Slough is aptly named the Shark Tank. From the road cutting across the sage covered hillside above the Slough, gawkers stop and admire the size and quan...
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...
New York, United States Brown trout are still fishing very, very well in the Lake Ontario tribs. Swinging streamers is the most exciting, and one of the most productive way to fish these fish, with baitfish and attractor...
New York, United States Steady fishing over the past week and a half. Better when the temperature is warmer and a bit tougher when it's cold. Saw 16 degrees on the car thermometer a couple mornings ago so that made it a ...
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...
Pagosa Springs, Colorado, United States Spring Has Sprung in the High Country!
Spring Break is in full swing now at the Wolf Creek Ski Area, but we are still fishing on the Lower San Juan River with both wade and ...
North Carolina, United States The weather was cloudy sky with some light rain in the area. The air temp is in the mid 60's. I was using a Cabala's 4 wt rod and reel. I did use black woolly buggers and a few dry flies. Th...
Michigan's Upper Peninsula , United States Fishing in Michigan's Upper Peninsula has picked up a bit over the last few days with the early winter warm up. A few steelhead and brown trout have come to hand. Fish are being...
Vail,Beaver Creek, Colorado, United States The Colorado River is a must for any angler wanting to experience a true western river. Home of the one of only 3 Salmon Fly hatches in Colorado! Flows are excellent and so is...
New York, United States After a long summer and a dry start to fall, we have finally had a few rainy days here in western New York. The creeks and rivers rose quite a bit toward the end of last week. Over the weekend and...
Belluno, Veneto, Italy Fishing and guiding my old fly fishing teacher...
After a bad and cold week, heavy storm, rain and snow on the higher top of the mountains finally we got a great day with warm temperature, not s...
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...
Junin de los Andes , Neuquen, Argentina Fishing around Junin de los Andes area is just AMAZING! The rivers levels is slowly dropping down and the water temperatures are just perfect and very clear. Right now fishing is e...
Junin de los Andes, Neuquen, Argentina February means hot temperatures in North Patagonia. We flew there last month looking to visit some of the classic rivers in my dear Argentina. We started off on the Caleufu, walking...
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...
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...
Michigan's Upper Peninsula , United States It's getting tough up here in the 906! Frigid air and water temps. With the cold water the fish have slowed way down. Fish the holding water low and slow. Be thourough and patie...
FEDERATION, Bosnia and Herzegovina I visited my favorite river in Bosnia, where in the past I lost some big brown trouts, record of the river is a brook trout 16kg.
The day was cold and cloudy, first I started with th...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States The best way to deal with the heatâ¦go fly fishing! But protect yourself from the sun while you are at it with a long sleeve fishing shirt and pants, sun gloves, a proper hat, and a B...
Northern California, United States Low waters, pocket areas full. Dry and sunny-AM was better than late afternoon. Drop in at the dam-muddy shores and new growth on the river bed.
Reno, Nevada, United States Fall is defianatley here in the Sierra's and the fishing has exploded. we have had a low water year but sections of river still hold fishable water and the fish are happy happy happy!!! Now is...
Neuquen, Patagonia Argentina, Argentina The best end of the season: last april and May was the end of the Patagonia trout season and despite of the low water level in almost all the rivers the fishing was outstanding not...
Vail, Colorado, United States http://www.vailvalleyanglers.com/fishing-conditions
Current Conditions
The upper Colorado from Pumphouse down to Dotsero is fairly icy in spots and the fishing is poor to fair. There is ...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States Silver Creek Outfitters Fly Fishing Forecast May 11-25
"Fish come and go, but it is the memory of the afternoons on the stream that endure." ~ E. Donnall Thomas
Only a few weeks until...
Alleghe, Veneto, Italy Remembering a nice catch of the past season...
The new one is just over the door and i'm really ready to guide clients and to get the water...
Endemic brown traout on nymph, look at the fin!
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States "Respect your quarry." ~ Paul Guernsey
Learning how to properly land and release fish is as important as learning how to read the water, cast, and set the hook. Studies have shown that...
Nottingham Road, KZN province, South Africa Here in the KZN midlands we have suffered the drought and the heat like the rest of South Africa this season. In fact, in the first week or so of January, we had the highest te...
Wildalpen, Wildalpen, Austria Our third season guiding on the Salza River in Austria started a bit colder than the previous years. Spring hadn't arrived in the Alps yet and the trout and grayling weren't as active as we ...
Sun Valley, Idaho, United States âYellowstone River closed in response to on going fish kill.â ~Montana Fish and Wildlife Website
The parasite that is killing whitefish and trout in the Yellowstone is prese...
private, Michign, United States Things have been without a doubt very cold in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. We had a small warm up and we took full advantage of it! The water conditions were low cold and clear water temper...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States And everything under the sun is in tune. But the sun is eclipsed by the moon.
â Pink Floyd
If you have not heard, the Sun Valley and Stanley area is in the path of totality for the ...
Yorkshire, United Kingdom I woke up to a typical early Feb morning with frost on the ground and ice on the windscreens of the cars. This was not going to deter me from my planned trip to the local trout lake to try and c...
Idleyld Park, Oregon, United States Hi, Iâm Elena, Rustyâs wife. My husband is a real outdoorsman and fly fisherman, so he spends very little time on the computer. When he comes home from a fly fishing outing, ...
Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, Canada With the spring weather here on Vancouver island the fishing is heating up as well and the bugs are starting to hatch. dry fly fishing for rainbow trout cutthroat and browns have b...
Colorado, United States It's Caddis season on the Eagle, Colorado and Roaring Fork Rivers. Yellow Sally's and PMD's too. The rivers are dropping as run-off is ending. Conditions are excellent! This is some of the best dry fly fishing of the year.
Fontana Lake, North Carolina, United States First wild trout trip to the Smokies! Alot of water to fish on Hazel creek, Browns and Rainbows were caught during our outing on the creek. flies used for the the three days we...
RÃo Gallegos, The Route of the Spring Creeks, Argentina In the making of the Route of the Spring Creeks we started with this report of the first scouting and include also some data and pics from the whole season.
The...
fassa and fiemme valley around trento, trentino alto adige, Italy Dolomitic mountains part 1
I spent 2/3 fantastic days in one of the most beautiful place in italy. Wild browns, rainbows and marbles are the main fishes ...
Ft. Smith, Montana, United States Weather was overcast the first day, and sunny the next. Flows were a bit above average. Water clarity was 1ft max, very cloudy due to an algae bloom. Fishing was decent, but you had to w...
Puerto Bertrand, XI Region, Chile This huge brown trout became the N°1 of the season. 14 Pounds and 37 inches of brown beauty was the delight of JP, our Chilean client. Don´t miss the chance of getting this Brown T...
Pennsylvania, United States Streamer fishing has been very good over the past few days and will continue to produce well as long as sufficient flows and warm temperatures don't drive the fish down. Covering all water wel...
Wyoming, United States Good stuff...browns are aggressive and hunrgy. The streamer fishing has been great when the flows/weather cooperate, most fish over 15". Nymphing is good...and almost great, but we are loving the...
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...
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...
Te Anau, Southland, New Zealand Winter has been somewhat mild down here in the south of New Zealand, Southland Te Anau and the fly fishing has been great. With the majority of the river systems closed in the Fiordland re...
Gore, South Island, New Zealand Hi Girls and Guys
It's half way through November and the back country waters have been open for a fortnight .
I haven't been able to get there and fish for myself yet and it's starting t...
Argentina Anxiously awaiting the new season. 2014 was a special year with great willow worm and minnow hatches in abundance along with our other great hatches. Hopper fishing was the best in years and midge fishing in th...