Fly Fishing Tips Archives

Fly Line Tapering

Here is a well-done column/post that I recently came across while skimming through Twitter (aka X). The piece is written on fly lines and their tapering…some of you may already understand how important a taper is to a fly-line but if you don’t…please give this a read and keep the basics in mind the next […]

Shoulder Surgery And Good Fly Casting Technique

I am currently 51 years old and the sins of my past are catching up with me; no, I am not confessing any murders and I don’t think I have any skeletons in my closet but what I have is about 40 years of overhead mechanics…that have finally caught up with me. I won’t go […]

New Tricks For An Old Dog

I must say that I have never tried teaching an old dog new tricks; what I hear is that it is tough to do. I have always had greater success teaching those new tricks to a puppy…in fact over the years I have received a bunch of phone calls wanting me to take an older […]

A Crayfish Buffet

OK, it really doesn’t matter if you call them crayfish, crawdads, crawfish, mudbugs or yabbies (Australia) what does matter is that they are basically all the same creature. Sure there are some size variations and certainly color variations…but the basics are the same…oh, and the smallmouths love them! Earlier this summer I was in Missouri […]

Video – Little Creeks And Big Smallies

This video was shot on a small creek in southern Indiana and captured by my 16 year old son…so, I apologize for the shakiness of the video but the true story is in the presentation and effectiveness of a good crawdad pattern. I think you like the 20 inch fish that was caught on camera….probably […]

A Hot Creek On A Cool Day

As the song says…you can’t ever go home again; in my case it was my oldest son, Harrison, coming home, from college. Harrison has been attending Lewis University in Chicago…right there with all those yuppies, big buildings, freeways (that aren’t free) and lot of concrete. The cure seemed like a good dose of southern Indiana […]