Fly Fishing Techniques
Missouri Trout Parks – Tips and Advice – Montauk
This is Part 2 of my series of Tips and Advice for fishing the Missouri Trout Parks. Part 1 was Bennet Spring. The others are Maramec Spring and Roaring River. OK … so, let’s talk a bit today about another of the four Missouri Trout Parks…Montauk State Park is located in central Missouri about an […]
Missouri Trout Parks – Tips and Advice – Bennett Spring
I won’t claim to be the most experienced Missouri Trout Park fly-guy … but over the last decade I have fished all four, many times and thus want to give you DIY fly fishermen some advice and tips to make your time more enjoyable. From east to west, the four trout parks are; Merrimac Springs, […]
A Two Footer
If you have been reading my column or following me online then you know that one of my goals, maybe even a bucket list item has been to catch a double digit bass, from my float tube, on a fly I tied…and of course on a fly rod. Well…this past weekend, while you may have […]
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. […]