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Category: How to start

Lesser-Known Flies Series: The Booby Fly

July 27, 2022 David Hyde

If there was one fly I could take with me for a panfish or freshwater bass outing, it would be the Booby Fly. I have never fished this fly for trout, but it does have a reputation as a stillwater trout fly as well. This fly is similar to the Mop Fly in that it

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Striper Season

May 26, 2022 Joel Watson

After a long winter spent at the vise tying saltwater flies, spring finally came once again, and my favorite yellow-eyed fish, the Striped Bass returned to the shores of Massachusetts. If there is one fish that the New England coast is known for, it’s stripers. They are the perfect fly rod fish. They are opportunistic

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Rich Strolis’s ‘Shucked-up Emerger’

June 25, 2021June 18, 2021 Damon Matus

There’s no shortage of fly pattern tutorial videos these days.  Many of them are an impressive display of the fly tyer’s art, but one has to wonder if some of them actually catch fish.  I get on a creative streak from time to time, whipping up experimental patterns that look great but most of them

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Brook Trout,Brown Trout,Flies and fly tying,Hendricksons,How to start,Rainbow Trout1 Comment

Tough as Nail Knots: Mental Toughness and Fly Fishing

April 8, 2021April 8, 2021 David Hyde

If you want to catch more fish, think like an endurance athlete. A full day of fly fishing is a marathon, not a sprint. Mental exercises and techniques used by high-performing runners, rowers, cross country skiers, cyclists, and swimmers can be used by fly fishers too. Specifically, the two components of mental fitness that I

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