Winter fly fishing is a different game. Water is getting colder, hatches are sparse, and the fish are hunkered down. What to do? Get out and fish! Here is a brown from New Year’s Eve in 2016. View this post on Instagram A post shared by BlogFlyFish.com (@blogflyfish) Thanks to a prior Mop Fly
Category: Techniques
Lance Egan: ‘Low and Slow Near the Riverbed’
Team USA member Lance Egan has written a great article in the Fly Fisherman. Link is here. He writes that it’s important to fish nymphs “low and slow” where the fish tend to hang out, near the bottom. A few years ago, I went down the Euro-Nymphing Rabbit Hole after reading a bunch about currents.
‘All In’
The hunt. The second guessing. The missed hook sets. We’ve all been there. Then, a perilous fish fight. Vindication. And, another fish. I love this video. I think it is one of the best I’ve seen in a while.
Post-Spawn Streamer Bite
It’s been a while since I set out with a clear plan to fish streamers. I had a successful nymphing session on the day before Thanksgiving, highlighted by a stout, multi-year holdover brown. After messaging with Andy Lyons about the likelihood of the fish being a wild specimen, the topic shifted to the movement habits