Fly Fishing Tips Archives

Crayfish Patterns – Give Them A Slow Go – Now

If you are a small creek or river fisherman like I am….now is the time as the past couple weeks has been very good….seems like the smallies and spotted bass are putting on the feed bag. Crayfish seems to be the only pattern! I have tried other things but keep going back to the fact […]

The Big Cat

Labor Day weekend was supposed to be a total washout…that being the case I didn’t plan a lot of fishing. Long about Sunday afternoon the rain started to dwindle at my house and a quick check of the radar signaled the end to my afternoon napping, watching golfers wiggle their way around the TPC of […]

Video – How To Tie A Non Slip Mono Knot

There are some types of knots that are very important to know how to tie, especially if you tie flies and make your own baitfish patterns. I use it when tying the deadhead minnow pattern to my tippet. It’s a very strong knot that is a ‘must have’ in your knot tying repertoire. It’s actually […]

Video – Fly Casting – Single Hauling

You are going to watch a video that is the third in our casting series and the focus this time is on single hauling. Single hauling is a quick movement of the left hand (right handed) or the line hand to speed up the line while casting. It is an integral part of the cast […]

Video – How To Tie A Perfection Loop Knot

Knowing how to tie a knot correctly can make the difference between a successful day of fishing or “knot”, pun intended! In this video I’ll show you how to tie what’s called a “Perfection Loop”. This knot is one that I use to attach leader to tippet and even sections of tippet to tippet. It […]

Video – Fishing A Crayfish Pattern Fly For Smallmouths

The video you are going to watch is me fishing a smaller creek here in southern Indiana. I am fishing the crayfish pattern that I showed you how to tie in an earlier video. You will see how to jig the fly through a hole and entice a strike from a smallmouth. If you haven’t […]