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Tight-line nymphing is all about maintaining contact with your flies underwater – it’s accomplished by keeping your fly line off the water and holding the leader taut throughout your drift.
This especially applies to the fall streamer fishing we’re all enjoying on the freestones. If a trout is following your big fly, you’re on the right track. We all know to carry many colors and sizes ...
Final Thoughts Fly fishing is not the easiest or the most effective way to catch a fish. The draw of the sport is the challenge and the adventure that lies therein. Embrace these aspects. If you just ...
I typically fish with smaller flies in the winter, and 99 percent of winter fly fishing is nymph fishing. At any time of the year, midges comprise more than 50 percent of a trout’s diet.
FOR SOMEONE WITH a vested interest in selling goods for exploring the great outdoors, Yvon Chouinard, the owner and founder of the outdoor-apparel company Patagonia, takes a surprisingly stripped ...
April 3, 2015 2:36 pm ET Share Resize ‘The History of Fly Fishing in Fifty Flies’ A new book by writer and angler Ian Whitelaw charts the development of the sport over the past six centuries.