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At the Vise: Sulphur Cripple
It could be coincidence, but I’ve had good luck throwing Sulphur Cripple patterns. This weekend, a brown almost at 19″ took one. Last month, a 20″ brown ate one as well. (Blog posts here and here.) Even when it doesn’t work, the pattern gets a lot of looks. Both times, I fished the flies on a
A Magic Fly (for Today)
It was a tale of two halves today on the river. With forecast for rain and some potential lightning, I in the end decided to go for it and arrived early at the water, only to find absolutely no action. I didn’t see many bugs, and I couldn’t get any reactions from the fish. By
At the Vise: Sulphur Nymph
The Sulphur hatch is one of my favorites. By then, usually, trout rise willingly. It is a hatch that lasts longer than Hendricksons do. During one lights-out outing, I saw many fish staging in the shallows before the hatch and then rise everywhere as a flotilla of emergers and duns floated down. I caught many