Fly Fishing The Big Walnut
Fishing when July rolls around can at times be a crapshoot…especially if you are looking to fish on still waters as the temps within the lakes climbs and climbs finally arriving at a point where there is just so little oxygen that any of the ‘big fish that go bump in the night’ really aren’t […]
Low Water Smallmouth On Sugar Creek
CFS is cubic feet per second and on Saturday, July 30th Frank Terkhorn and I headed north to Sugar Creek where the CFS was running at a measly 98; truth is it was the lowest flow and water level we had ever fished ‘the creek’ and I was eager to see how it would all […]
Big-Little Creek Smallies
The problem with going north to Canada and Michigan these past few weeks is that the fishing was so good that in all honesty it is tough to come home to what might at times be some pretty normal or sub-par fishing. Don’t get me wrong, I love southern Indiana, its people, it scenic value […]
Fly Fishing The Muskegon River
I left Wakeley Lake (last week’s column) and spent the next day floating down 9 miles of the most beautiful, scenic and most wild rivers I have ever seen…The Au Sable. The water was as cold as any I have felt and the wildlife was abundant…that is to say the wildlife above the water line. […]
Fly Fishing Wakeley Lake
Rarely does something in print meet or even come close to expectations … but on Friday, July 15th, I had the privilege of fishing a small lake, Wakeley Lake, in north-central Michigan and it more than met any preconceived notions I had going in. As I opened up my March/April of 2016 edition of Eastern […]
Hey Streamer Guys – Match the Hatch
On my most recent fly fishing trip up through Iowa, Wisconsin, Canada and both upper and lower peninsulas of Michigan…the idea of matching the hatch became a factor that I just couldn’t ignore. Most often we associate the idea of “match the hatch” with the dry fly guys…possibly even those sub-surface specialist of the nymphing […]