Rockport, Texas, United States A bit later than planned, but here is an updated fishing report for Rockport, Texas and surrounding waters. Weâve made it a majority of the way through March already. So we will update...
Rockport, Texas, United States Welcome to 2019, and our first Rockport fly fishing report of the year. We are putting a wrap on the first full week of the year, which has been a pretty interesting one. But things are sti...
Rockport, Texas, United States Week one of February is in the books, so itâs time for another Rockport Fly Fishing report. We will do our best to fill you in on what weâve been seeing out there since our last f...
Denton, Texas, Texas, United States It seems we here in Central North Texas have been spared the storms that are firing up west of us this morning. (Rain has started since I began writing at 5-am) Talking weather heads s...
Dallas, Texas, Texas, United States Weather has been inconsistent, but the carp, drum and grass carp are being found at Lake Ray Roberts, Texas. They are a bit finicky, but definitely there in size and quality. This year...
Dallas, Texas, United States We have had a lot of ups-and-downs in the local water levels, but the rain has finally stopped and fish are moving back into the flats on Lake Ray Roberts, Texas. They are settling down and m...
Port O'Connor, Texas, United States Fishing behind hurricane Harvey for the past few weeks has been a bit challenging between the freshwater run-off and the silt stirred up in the bays. We've had some good tide flushes ...
Dallas, Texas, United States We have a fluid situation here in North Texas, where the lakes are still bulging with fresh water from spring rains, and the downstream lakes now have the ability to take water from upstream....
Texas, United States Texas is finally getting a break from the cold weather, and we can say spring has sprung. East Texas still has the biggest supply of freshwater opportunities, while the rest of the state, with the ex...
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Tishomingo, Oklahoma, United States FLY FISHING IN TEXAS
Whether itâs rain or cold, North Texas is fully involved in the cold weather fly fishing patterns nowadays. So letâs go to OKLAHOMA. Last weekâs tr...
To My Fellow Fly Fishing Nuts;Hello from a beautiful Spring Day in B.C. that’s screaming; Yard Work, Spring Cleaning, Spring Skiing, and Golf at me at the same time. It’s all helping me re enter society after another...
Amazon / Pará / Mato Grosso, Brazil South Amazon incredible fishing
At the end of May/ beginning of July we have had a group from Orvis, Jeremy Kehrein and Tyler Atkins, who brought Bryan Goulart from NYC, Keith Ha...
In 1994 it was published in the Italian Fly fishing magazine "Fly Line", a my articles where I proposed to bend upwards the stretch near eye of a hook shank right, to give the fly more balanced and stable in water.
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I've been watching the lake I guide on here in North Central Texas, Lake Ray Roberts, suffer from drought for going on four years now, and no one has said there's any end in sight. I thought it would be a good time, bef...
October is magically beautiful fall month on Oregon’s Umpqua River and everything to do with the Historic Steamboat Inn; the people, the food, the setting, the riverside trails, etc. are outstanding. Some of the water ...
Bend Back Sand EelThere is a sea loch near me called Loch Fleet. It is great for sea trout (sea run browns). They hang around the weed beds so I wanted something reasonably weedless for them. Some time ago I bought some ...
hello I am Thomas Lamphere. I am a Professional fly tier and fisherman out of the Port Orchard, WA, USA. I love targeting coastal cutthroat trout. I have not found a trout that is as violet in a strike nor fight as hard....
North Bend, Washington, United States Like the saying goes, "You never forget your first"... I took my kids to a local lake while the wife rested at home. I found small window of opportunity to try out my 6WT and just p...
Bled, Gorenjska region, Slovenia Dear Fly Fisherman... While here in Europe majority of the Fly fishing audience still waits for the main 2019 fly fishing season opens with April 1st, few already tasted the joys of fly r...
Most fishermen usually associate fly fishing to small artificial lures. This is true if you focus on trout species, fish that feed on nymphs and adult insects or even on smaller fish. Few anglers dare to experiment with ...
As I crossed the rooster hackle around the X of foam for tie the Thorax, I thought that, if I had wrapped a 45 ° tilted forward, I would get slimmer imitation, with the collar hackles of fly that, instead of penetratin...
In classic Patagonia rivers such as the Aluminé and Chimehuín one can no longer see in the afternoon so many adult stoneflies like there were a decade ago, but their imitations still produce violent surface strikes,...
Lefty Kreh, the creator of this fly, is one the most recognized fly fishermen in the world.He made this fly in the late 50´s to fish saltwater; he was looking for a streamer that would be easy to cast and woul...
Fd: How did Art and Fly Fishing get together in your life? How were your beginnings in these two different fields?RMB: I have been fly fishing since I was ten years old (I am now 66), my dad taught me. I went to the Univ...
There was a time when Marabou Muddlers were the flies to catch big trout. I still remember some strikes at the bend of the Chimehuin River’s La Boca (river inlet) in Patagonia with some black Marabou Muddlers almost at...
Bistra and
Ljubija are right tributaries of the marsh beauty Ljubljanica , which connect to it at
Vrhnika city and are home to the indigenous species of beautiful brown trout,
elegant grayling and magnificent Huchen (Dan...
Tie the Mirage is very simple, just you have to be careful to use a feather with all the fibers intact otherwise you cannot get the a imitation with the body and the tails perfect. Because the CDC is a precious material,...
An all to common practice among fly fisherman is what I like to call "the death grip". Recently I had been talking to some of my fly fishing mates about how they handle Trout when trying to get a good snap shot, They wer...
Wild landscapes that span tundra, forests, lakes and mountains. Home to the largest population of brown bears on the planet! Majestic beasts that are drawn to the abundant salmon of this mighty river. Flowing out of th...
The Legend Golden Stone AKA Deep Throat “He didn’t eat it”, is not what you want to hear as a guide or fly tier. Yet there it was, out there for all to hear. It was a good fish to, just over 20 inches I’d g...
Can’t Buy a Thrill?*John C. Melfi<br>Imagine that you’re fishing in an area where you believe fish to be, or even better, that you’re fishing over sighted fish. You’ve tried several of your ol’-reliable, ...
River Bend Guide Service offers both driftboat and road accessed flyfishing trips on over 20 miles of private water on Oregon's famous Deschutes River. We have exclusive rights to fish the Warm Springs Indian Reservation...
There is only a few species of fish that can have so many different sizes, colours or just behaviour then trout (brown trout, sea, ...). This fish of our dreams will remain a myth for its polymorphism and ability to adap...
Snell a hook with backing. Put a needle in the vise horizontally. Skewer the needle into the back end of the swivel. Snag a rubber band into the bend of the hook. Snag the other end of the rubber band around the back end...
This past week, Cody and I set out for a few days of troutin’ in the Driftless. Worked an extra half-day Tuesday morning, and gathered my wits with a quick noon-hour siesta. Gave the call over to Cody,...
Fort Collins, Colorado-based fly tier Eric Ishiwata is a dedicated student of the swung fly. And his basic design principles fall into four essential categories: profile, color, flash, and size. By fine-tuning those attr...
Growing up
an avid angler, I have always had an urge for new species of game fish that I
could improve my skills with. I have found that with each new body of water and
species, that my knowledge and more importantly, m...
Fd: How did fly fishing and photography get together for you? MJ: Growing up in Texas, I had a rod in hand as a child fishing for bass in local ponds and lakes. This grew into an obsession and throughout my teenage year...
If you had asked me, when I was my son’s age, what I wanted to be doing when I was 62 years old, I would have laughed at you. First, because I’d never be that old. Then, I would have described to you, more or less, e...
In the distance I see a flock of birds flying in one direction- a good sign. We have to follow the birds, which is difficult because, unlike them, we have to follow the ancient river bends of the Okavango. The canals are...
One of the drawbacks of being a fly-fishing company based in the United States is that we can't always see how our products are received in other markets. We get reports and see sales figures, but until we actually set f...
Fd: Can you tell us how the idea of setting up a fly-fishing operation in Barbados came up?It all started when I moved to Barbados for a 4 year period. I have always fished, since my childhood back home in Denmark, for s...
Top 3 Fly Fishing spots near Vancouver BC
Are you keen on Fly Fishing? Well so are we! We’ve been fly fishing
some of the Best places within a few hours of Vancouver since the early
1990’s. If you've got the bug f...
Fd: Can you tell us how the idea of setting up a fly-fishing operation in Darwin came up?Darwin is surrounded by vast areas of shallow clean waterways teeming with dozens of species of tropical fish in hundreds of locati...
You may know Colorado-based fine arts photographer, Tim Romano, from his work at venerable Field & Stream Magazine, or his former gig as photo editor at the Fly Fish Journal. But there’s a good chance you don’t ...
We have recently received the visit of Larry Stefanyk, a well known journalist, artist and fly fisherman from British Columbia-Canada, who owns a well appointed fishing magazine and who wrote 4 books already, about fish...
Fd: Can you tell us about your beginnings and setting up your guiding service in British Columbia? I started guiding back in 1996 mostly as a flyfishing guide for Salmon and Trout on local rivers and some interior lakes ...
Fd: What can you tell us about your new book: Wild Trout? Wild Trout is a bilingual (English and Spanish) book that covers the basic aspects of the biology of wild trout in Patagonia. Its 300 pages show unique photos acc...