Video – Cold Weather Smallmouth Fly Fishing Tips – Part 1
The video you are about to view is of me fly-fishing for Smallmouth on a small stream in southern Indiana. I am using a Cabela’s TQR rod, 5’6”, 4 weight with WF4 floating line. The stream is up a little as we had rain a couple days in advance. I am also casting a half […]
Winter Smallies On The Meramec River
I made a cross stream cast as the current was flowing moderately from my left to right; I watched as my brown wooly bugger crossed in front of a large downed tree…and then disappeared. The abrupt tug on the other end sent my senses into high gear as I made a powerful strip with my […]
Fly Fishing Tip – Smallmouth Bass In February
Here’s a tip that relates to my most recent fishing adventures. The past couple weeks have been good for smallies; I have found that all yellow…along with shad colored half and half streamers fished slowly along the bottom has proved highly productive. Allowing the fly to swing from the faster water into slower, eddy paced […]
Fly Fishing From The Ground Up – Part 2 – Waders
Welcome to the second part of our series designed to help you get ready for this upcoming fly fishing season; today we are going to discuss waders. For our part today I am going to discuss stockingfoot waders and not boot waders. You may own and do well with boot waders but I personally am […]
Cold Water Bass
My little float tube is not actually an ice breaker; there have been a couple times over these past few years when I actually fished directly beside a sheet of ice. January 10th of this year found Harrison and I out in 53 degree weather, in fact the weather was simply remarkable for this time […]
Fly Fishing From The Ground Up – Part 1 – Wading Boots
This is the first in our series entitled “Fly Fishing From The Ground Up”. In this video we will discuss the bottom, your feet and how important a good…and the correct pair of wading boots actually are. So take a look at the video along with this narrative and prepare yourself for a great fly-fishing […]