Fly Fishing Tips

Tips to help you become a better fly fisherman or woman.

Video – Landing A Smallmouth In January

The video you are going to watch was shot on January 4th here in southern Indiana. It is obviously cold, as you can tell from the snow in the background. It is a good shot of how slow to fish a pool, especially in the winter. As you will notice just before the fish strikes….I […]

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Winter Tips For Better Smallmouth Fishing

If I have learned one thing over the past few years fishing for smallmouth….it is that you can’t predict what kind of mood they are going to be in. I have caught fish in a fury, hand over fist, until I was tired and in less than a day, in the same stream, went back […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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