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Fly fishing and fly tying articles tagged with fly pattern

fly fishing dragonfly nymphs, stillwater fly fishing, lake fly fishing, dragonflies, streamers

The Stonefly Equivalent of Stillwater

Everybody loves stoneflies, but what about big bugs in stillwater?

Fly Fish Food perdiworm fly pattern, perdigon, san juan worm, euro nymphing, euronymphing, tightline nymphing fly pattern

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Weird Flies That Work: Perdiworm

Another weirdo that works great!

fly fishing nymphs, dry flies, wet flies, streamers, fly fishing trout, atlantic salmon, steelhead

Protecting A Fishery With Ineffective Angling?

Why would you limit your fly fishing tactics to help the fish? Hear me out...

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Carp Flies Don't Have To Be Dull

Trends in Fly Innovation

Trends in Fly Innovation

can we expect new innovations in fly patterns to continue forever?

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The Stonefly Molt

Attractor dry flies, sparkle pupa, why do trout rise? Gary LaFontaine Dry Fly New Angles

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Attracting Rises from Trout

Wisdom from a forgotten book: Why do trout rise to a dry fly? Exploring LaFontaine's lost ideas on attractors

Fly tying the Chubby Chernobyl fly pattern

Get the Wings Right on the Chubby Chernobyl

Despite being a Swiss Army knife pattern, fly tyers seem to struggle with the wing on the Chubby Chernobyl

A tarpon toad fly pattern illustrated in the style of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album cover

More Clues on Fish Vision (Tarpon Edition)

We're diving into the wide world of tarpon vision, a place more vivid than humans might imagine...

Flies displayed include: chubby chernobyl, clouser minnow, barr's meat whistle, popper, crazy charlie, and turneffe crab

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Behind the Scenes

Unveiling the creative process from idea to ink for Due West Angler's distinctive articles on fly fishing + science + conservation

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Pink Grasshoppers Really Do Exist

In our never-ending quest to explain why unexpected colors work as fly patterns I found some insights in an unlikely place... the museum...

how does trout memory work? they remember flies after large hatches like the salmonfly hatch

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Fish Memory and Pattern Hangover

You missed the big hatch, but if you know a little about how trout brains work you might know that you're window of opportunity hasn't fully closed yet...

Bass vision, how do flies like bass poppers, Mr Wiggly, Slumpbusters, other assorted bass flies look?

largemouth bass

More Clues on Fish Vision (Bass Edition)

Can fish see color? Bass don't see our flies like you'd expect...

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Phantom Sculpins of the South Platte

Why would a trout eat a sculpin fly in a river without sculpin?

The Unforgivable Sins of Fly Tying

Do you know the unforgivable sins of fly tying?

umpqua weekender fly box loaded full of fly patterns

What Makes a Fly a Classic?

Fly tying: You may have heard that there are no original stories anymore, or that movies are all remakes... the same is true for flies