Fly Fishing Tips Archives

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 […]

Fly Tying by Megan Boyd – Kiss The Water

This video entitled “Kiss the Water” is maybe just what the doctor ordered as we sit here, late in winter, shoveling out from the late blast of winter. I must say that without my fly tying….these past few weeks would have been almost too much to handle. If you’re not familiar with the tying of […]