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Author: Jo Tango

A Dry Fly Search Pattern

May 11, 2015September 25, 2017 Jo Tango

When water temps and depth are right, I’m looking forward to fishing the Parachute Hare’s Ear Dry as a search pattern. I nymph and swing wets/streamers to search for trout, but I never before have used a dry when there’s no obvious hatch. I first heard about it via Tom Rosenbauer’s Prospecting for Trout, which

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21″ Brown Trout

May 9, 2015September 13, 2017 Jo Tango

21″ holdover brown at the Farmington. Still cannot believe it. (N.B.: next time I will remember to keep the fish submerged in the water during the photo opp.)

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A Magical Evening with a Caddis Hatch

May 8, 2015September 3, 2024 Jo Tango

Wow.  Fished after work at a very local freestone one evening this week. Hooked eleven and landed seven. Three of the browns were about 12″ or so. Video of one of them up top. I’ve fished this water before, and it’s been mediocre to pretty good. This time, it was awesome. I think it was

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Jay Hale on the Parker River

May 7, 2015September 23, 2017 Jo Tango

Here’s an amazing guest post from Jay Hale. You can follow him on Twitter. With a prolonged ice fishing season and an early June trip to the Connecticut River headwaters on the docket this year, I knew I wouldn’t be hitting the trout waters hard in late March and early April. Combing through my list

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