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Fly fishing mecca, the Au Sable River, is No. 1, according to USA TODAY's 10Best Readers' Choice Awards.
This is the second time USA TODAY readers have honored the Au Sable for its fly fishing. In 2024's USA TODAY's 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards, the Au Sable River also was No. 1 in the the U.S.
Angus Drummond specializes in floating fly fishers down the Lower Colorado River. (Ed Engle/Courtesy photo) We then went to dry fly dropper rigs and fished the foam lines near the banks.
Catching my first one was insane! I might have cried. “And after that,” she said, “I was coming back three days a week.” Lino Jubilado uses a tenkara-style fly-fishing rod in the L.A. River.
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 ...
No other fly, Lyons explained, gets the river’s large fish feeding with such reckless abandon. By 3 p.m., the reddish brown flies, less than an inch in length, arrived above the water.
5 Must Have Fly Fishing Nymphs The amount of nymph fly patterns available out there is staggering, and some of them are extremely detailed and developed for very specific situations and presentation.
Afloat on the wintry river You can do winter fly-fishing all across the state. But mostly it's confined to hard-core anglers "who just need that fix," Winchester says.
Fly-fishing can be a very gear-intense activity. Getting what you need can seem like an endless journey back and forth to the fly shop. A lot of guides and avid anglers try to minimize what they are ...
This is the second time USA TODAY readers have honored the Au Sable for its fly fishing. In 2024's USA TODAY's 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards, the Au Sable River also was No. 1 in the the U.S.