There are plans. Then, there are fly-fishing plans. The latter often don’t go as scripted. Yesterday’s didn’t, but what an evening Sulphur hatch. I like structuring my days and weeks and am partial to planning. But, as we anglers all know, there’s only so much planning that works with fly fishing. Due to luck or
Author: Jo Tango
Luck
Reading blog reader Nicholas’s comment (below the post here) made me realize something: there’s tremendous luck that goes with fly fishing. The luck happens when you fish a run that no one has yet hit and disturbed. It occurs when you are nymphing, ready to cast at the end of the drift…and, find a fish
Finding Mojo
Well, it was definitely a weird fishing day for me. Maybe it was coincidence, but two other blog team members, at a different river, reported the same thing: rising fish that were very selective. On Sunday, I again found myself stalking for morning trout with dries. It was very frustrating to see dimples and float
An Evening Float with Chris Jackson
I think one of the most enduring parts of fly fishing is not the fish, the flies, or the trips. It is the people whom you meet. I did a Bucket List foray to fish for monster browns at Arkansas’s White River (prior post here). Concord Outfitters set it up, and I ended up rooming