Fly Fishing Techniques
Sizzlin’ Summer Smallmouth
Have you ever taken or gone to a buffet with a large guy…you know what I’m talking about, the guy that piles it high and deep, over and over…I must admit that on occasion I can consume mass quantities of calories myself while at a Chinese restaurant. Smallmouth are much the same, in fact your […]
Fly Fishing for Carp from a Float Tube
Possibly you view a carp as a big goldfish…maybe you don’t really even know what a carp is? In the fly fishing world carp are now a pursued commodity…the freshwater bonefish as many have called them. Truth is that until just recently I hadn’t been able to actually hook a carp on a fly…but that […]
2015 – Here We Go Fly Casting
Kinda hard to believe…but it is indeed 2015. We are closer to the year 2030 than we are to 1999; what? That can’t be…ah, but it is. I can still remember wondering what might just happen when we cruised into the second millennium…and here we are looking forward to the 16th year of the 2000’s. […]
Late April Smallies Video
This video you was filmed here in southern Indiana using my GoPro with a chestie mount. It is a gorgeous day and I am fishing a 5 weight TQR rod made by Cabela’s and a sink tip line that sinks at about an inch and a half per second. The fly is a shiner or […]
Springtime Smallmouth Video
This ‘Springtime Smallmouth’ video was shot using my GoPro camera on a sunny and gorgeous day in scenic southern Indiana. The stream is up a bit from spring rains…but the water is dropping and clearing up. I am fishing a size 6 bluntnose minnow imitation on a 5 weight sinking line set up. The first […]
Early Season Smallmouth Tactics
I am putting this short narrative along with this film so that you can get a better idea of a couple different methods for catching these early season smallies. As you watch the first fish I catch I do so using a shiner or creek chub that I was allowing to sink and then retrieving […]