Fly Fishing Tips Archives

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 […]

Match The Hatch

For a fly-fisherman, matching the hatch is a big deal…in fact, for any fisherman, matching the hatch is important. In the fly fishing world we tend to get carried away…there are those who tie the smallest of flies, all the way down to size 30 and 32. You probably don’t know sizing but picture a […]

Water Clarity

Friday, April 26th was much like other Fridays at school…but it was the end of a pretty long week and through most of the week it had been wet and when combined with busy, well that meant that I had not been fishing since the previous weekend. I drove the old red Suburban to school […]

Float Tubes And The New Voyager

I have been a float tube person for several years now and probably can boldly state that I logged about as many hours in the Creek Company’s ODC 420 as anyone. The progress and technology made in float tubes over the past 20 years has been remarkable to say the least. In the old days […]