Simon's father taught him to fish at the age of 6. Now 48, he's been teaching fly casting professionally since he was 16. He has both cast and fished for England in British, European and World Championships and was elect...
Fd: Can you tell us a bit about how the idea of setting up a fly-fishing operation came up? Well I'd been guiding in Alaska for a number of years, and when the season would end up there I'd come back home here and our fa...
Check out this weeks blog on Spey Casting from Sage Ambassador and Headhunters Fly Shop owner Mark Raisler.http://www.sageflyfish.com/blog/02/2014/can-i-add-a-scandi-to-my-skagit/
Ohio, United States Lots of fresh fish are still being caught! We are having about equal success with swinging spey rods and indicator fishing. It looks the unseasonable cold has retreated and now we are to normal temps....
Ohio, United States Great fishing continues. Spey fishing is the way to go. The rivers are still a bit high, but it's from snowmelt so there is still good visibility. We're seeing a bunch of nice fish pushing in. Should ...
Alaska, United States Weather was clear and sunny, day temps ran 40-50F nights 28-35, the river was in great condition for swinging streamers with spey or single hand rods, Anglers averaged 2-3 Wild steelhead per day lan...
April lives in British Columbia and is an avid angler and steelhead, salmon and trout guide. She was born with an unexplainable passion for fishing. As a young girl she coaxed her father into going fishing and by the ag...
Lake Cowichan, Canada With the winter steelhead coming to a close for the season we still got a few weeks of great fishing with the last of the March run entering the system. We are switching gears to trout fishing with ...
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada April is our peak month for Bull trout on the Squamish river which is only 50 minutes from downtown Vancouver. This classic British Columbia river holds good numbers of Bull trout plus...
Fd: When did you start fly fishing? Can you tell us about your memories from those times?Paula: I started fly fishing from a young age. For as far back as I can remember my dad had taken me out fishing with him. My you...
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 ...
Agency proposes mining restrictions in Bristol Bay to protect salmon, world-class angling and 14,000 American jobs.ANCHORAGE, AK – Sportsmen around the country applaud the EPA’s release of its draft determination ...
Fly fishing has a tendency to produce fanatics, purists, and even some insufferable snobs. Sure, not everyone who picks up a fly rod goes down those paths, but it does seem that the percentage of practitioners of the lo...
Fly fishing has a tendency to produce fanatics,
purists, and even some insufferable snobs. Sure, not everyone who picks up a
fly rod goes down those paths, but it does seem that the percentage of
practitioners of the lon...
Ketchum, Idaho, United States "Overwhelmingly, the reason why so many experienced and well-equipped fisherman catch so few trout is that most of the time they aren't fishing over fish." - Sparse Grey Hackle
The most e...
Ohio, United States Still finding steelhead and the smallies are starting to show. We are looking at the end of steelhead system, probably another three weeks or so. But then we transition to smallmouth and trout. We sho...
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada SPRING is finally moving into the region and this is going to kick start our Bull Trout and Steelhead fly fishing on the lovely Squamish river. This amazing beautiful river lies 50-60 ...
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...
Erie, Pennsylvania, United States Nothing brings me any more pleasure than helping someone catch their first fish on a fly rod, or guiding someone to their first Steelhead or Wild Trout for that matter. There is a certai...
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...
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...
FD: How many countries have you visited for fly fishing? Hard to count but it seems that not less than 25 countries with many returns to my favorite spots and different areas of gigantic countries like Russia for example...
Fd: Can you tell about the beginnings of your outfitting service? I started Keystone Anglers Guide Service as a way of introducing new people to the sport of fly fishing. I feel that sometimes the sport can be a little c...
Bombers and their relatives, Buck Bugs, are flies from New Brunswick, born in the famous Miramichi River. These deer hair flies have then found a place in remote distant waters such as those in cold Russia, Pacific steel...
The concepts of "beautiful" or "good" river quite subjective. Typically, we put in them different meanings, but there are common points such as untouched, beautiful landscape around, comfortable size of the river, conv...
We get a lot of emails from anglers that are just getting into fly fishing asking us about the basic setup to get started in the sport. That's why we came up with this short list of essentials. Of course, there are lots ...
Top news: A Memorandum of Agreement was announced recently clearing the way for the final steps of Klamath dam removals!California Trout stated:PacifiCorp and Warren Buffet have agreed to the full terms of dam removal ...
Fd: Can you tell us a bit about how the idea of setting up a fly-fishing operation came up? I’ve wanted to be a guide since middle school. However, as I got older, I was convinced by people older than me (adults) that...
Bristol Bay is a 40,000-square mile watershed with nine rivers and it is one of the last unspoiled areas on Earth.The Pebble deposit is a massive storehouse of gold, copper and molybdemum, located in the headwaters of th...
Fd: How did you get into fly fishing?Bob: A friend took me fishing one day on the Bow River in the late 60’s. I caught with a spoon three great rainbows and soon enough fishing became my new passion. At the time, I w...