Sometimes, all that’s lacking is confidence in your own abilities to make your fly fishing trips more successful.
It will keep you from getting flustered and making bad decisions, so you’ll do a better job of picking the right pattern for the conditions and just the right hole to cast into. Confidence will help you […]

Montana, Wyoming and Idaho are considered the golden triangle of fly-fishing in the U.S. - but cooler night-time temperatures all over the country are causing anglers to begin anticipating the arrival of fall and better fly fishing results.

Just a quick “heads up”…
I’ve begun putting together a series of fly fishing lessons that will eventually be available as a complete set.
The first of these, a step-by-step lesson describing how to execute an overhead cast, has just been posted on this web site.
Fly Fishing - the Overhead Cast…

To the uninitiated, there’s a certain mystique surrounding the art of fly fishing. Actually, the mystique is there for many experienced fly fishers, too - just a different sort.
Anyway, if you’re reading this, you’ve likely caught the bug. You’ve probably watched spell-bound at least once while an experienced fly fisher rythmically false casts […]

A month or so ago, in Learning from the Classics, I wrote about the classic books on fly-fishing, and what a rich source of techniques and tips those can be.
I just found another example from a 1920’s book, Practical Fly Fishing by Larry St. John.
This excerpt deals with the “when”, “where”, and “how” of […]