Fly Fishing Tips Archives

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 […]

Fly Fishing for Carp from a Float Tube – Video

You are about to watch a video that I shot while fly fishing for carp in my float tube in the Greene-Sullivan State Forest near Linton, Indiana. There was a moth hatch going on and as the moths hit the water … the carp were moving in and gobbling them up. I tied on an […]

Big Bass Caught Fly Fishing Memorial Day Weekend

The video below was taken over Memorial Day Weekend while I was fly fishing here in southern Indiana. I caught lots of nice bass….two of which were both 22 inches in length. You will see the bass and I have given a voice over as some help for how to better look for these bigger fish […]

Trolling in a Float Tube

As the years go by, one would hope that we get a little smarter? It doesn’t matter if it is handling money, work or even the big picture of life itself…but for sure I have started to fish ‘smarter’. There are fly patterns, lakes, streams and methods that work at various points of the year. […]

Getting Started in Streamer Fishing – Discussion

Here is a piece from MidCurrent on fishing streamers. It is chocked full of good info from some guys/guides that have made a living with streamers. There is a lot of info for streamer guys of all varying levels. I love the fact that these people talk about streamer fishing all year round and not […]