Fly Fishing Tips and Techniques

The following articles were written by many of your fellow fly fishers to provide you with information about Fly Fishing techniques, personal experiences, preferred Fly Fishing tackle, hot spots, and super Fly Fishing vacations.

	Dead Drift Technique - The dead drift method of fly fishing with nymphs is the most effective method an angler can use. Remember, nymphs are generally at the mercy of the rivers current, and get carried wherever the current happens to take them. An angler who can sim...
	Fly Fishing Secrets for the Novice as well as the seasoned Angler - Fly fishing is an exciting and fast growing sport all over the world, andespecially here in the U.S.A.  The reasons for the increasing popularity offly fishing are obvious.  Fly fishing is enjoyable, relaxing, and rewardingin many dif...
	Nymph Fishing Techniques - Small stream nymphing is a very productive form of fly fishing.  Attimes, you will not rise a fish to a dry fly.  Yet there are fish feedingactively below the surface.  So, you put the fly (nymph) to the fish. Nymph fishing is p...
	Techniques and tactics for nymphing - Just like dry fly fishing, there are many, many ways to fish a nymph. Which one you should use really boils down to how skilled you are in nymph fly fishing and what you are attempting to catch and where you are doing it. Make sense? &...
	Techniques of Wet Fly Fishing - Many anglers who are new to fly fishing consider dry fly fishing the “traditional”way of catching trout. Well, that’s not entirely true. Wet fly fishing datesback hundreds of years, well before dry fly fishing came around. Wet fly fishing is o...
	Angler's Attention - There is something that I have called `angler`s attention`. It is developed after you have been fishing, and in this article we will be concerning ourselves with fly fishing, for years and years. You can usually tell those that have it and those ...
	Book Review The Fly Tier's Benchside Reference - The Fly Tier`s Benchside Reference was written by Ted Leeson and Jim Schollmeyer, and published in 1998 (wow time flies) by Frank Amato Publications. It contains 444 pages of which 7 make up the index. When this book first came out ( I honestly t...
	Confidence in Fly Fishing - For those of you who, like me, have memories of fishing that pre-datememories of school, think back to as many fishing partners and trips as youcan.  Even those people you only went fishing with once.  Then try torecall times where the ...
	De-Mystifying Fly Fishing - I remember the first time I saw someone fly fishing.  I think I was fiveyears old.  My father, my sister and I had back packed to a remote alpinelake.  My trusty Zebco with the closed face push button casting reel, corkbobber and j...
	Fishing the Dropper Fly - Over the past decade or so, some fly fishers have hailed the dropper system as the latest and greatest thing to hit fly fishing since the graphite fly rod. The truth is the two fly dropper system has been around since fly fishing began. Like all ...
	Fly Fishing for Largemouth Bass - Like all bass fishing, bass fly fishing has exploded in popularity. The largemouth bass is considered by many the greatest of all gamefish. Once limited to just the Eastern United States, the largemouth bass has been introduced all over the con...
	Fly Fishing in High Water - A long, long time ago, I remember waking up at 3 a.m., on a Saturday. I say waking up, although I don`t think I ever went to sleep. It was opening day eve, as good as Christmas eve, in my seven year old way of thinking. Our destination was more ...
	Fly Fishing Techniques for Steelhead - There are a few basic steelheading techniques that every steelhead fly fishing angler knows, or should know. Which one you use will depend on several things including water level, clarity, temperature and speed. Also one must take into account ...
	The Dead Drift - One of the most popular fly fishing techniques is called dead drift. Dead drifting is primarily done when fly fishing with nymphs, and when fishing slots, seams or smaller rivers. It is an effective technique that any fly fisher should have in ...
	The Wet Fly Swing - The wet fly swing sounds like something one does at the square dance hall. Instead the wet fly swing is one of the oldest fly fishing techniques. It is used for all types of fish, where ever there is a current. Winter steelhead, salmon, big trout...
	Winter Trout Fly Fishing - It is winter time now.  One step on the frozen porch steps first thingin the morning removes any doubt of that fact.  Winter time brings on manythoughts, holidays, dark afternoons, football on TV and for me some of the besttrout fly f...
	Small Stream Fly Fishing - I believe there are more fish lost before an angler makes his first cast than at any other time when fly fishing the small stream. Picture this; you`ve spent some time hiking into a small stream in the back country. It`s early morning, mist is...
	Fly Fishing Techniques for Lakes - Lake fly fishing techniques are similar to those of any other types of water except you don`t have to deal with currents. In lakes fish have to aggressively search for food and are more likely to be tempted by anything that looks edible than thei...
	Where To Find 10 Fly Fishing Tips In A Single Paragraph - When looking for information on how to fly fish, fly fishing tips or flyfishing techniques, many anglers, or anglers to be, who limit their search tobooks or material written within the last few years or decades areshort-changing themselves. F...
	A Simple Way To Identify and Catch The Big One In River - River dry fly fishing, considered as the purest form of fly fishing, inspired generations of writers, artists, poets and even philosophers to wax lyrical about its pleasures. The gist of river dry fly fishing lies in the rise. Here, the angle...
	4 Critical Fly Fishing Tips - Good Fly Presentation Obviously, the goal when casting a fly is to present the fly to the fish in a realistic manner. You are trying to simulate nature here. If you are going for trout in a stream, for instance, this means a drag-free float of...
	It's an Alien World in Every River - When you look at a river, what do you see? A few flies on top? A fish or two? Look closer. Lay down on your chest at the side of the river and stare down into it. Look at a rock or a stick. Not very interesting? Keep looking. Soon, you ...
	6 Things You Must Do If You Want To Have The Secret To Catching More Trout - It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. ~John Steinbeck How Fish Think When you hunt for deer, and any other animal for that matter, there are some set rules you hav...

 

Food Sources for Lake Trout - Lake Trout will strike at many of the same flies you may use for river fishing, but there is a wide array of other flies you can use for lake trout fly fishing. Besides midges and mosquitos, scuds are a great food source for ...

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