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The Stonefly Molt: Timing and Patterns for Trout

Useful Biology: Hacking Camouflage

Useful Biology: Hacking Camouflage

Countershading is found in almost all fish, how can we use this to our advantage as anglers and fly tyers?

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Active vs Passive Flies

Incentives for tying and fishing soft hackles: exploring how to activate your nymphing

Adding Triggers to Fly Patterns: Subliminal Messaging for Trout

Adding Triggers to Fly Patterns: Subliminal Messaging for Trout

Fly tying: We might carry a lot of patterns, but if none match the searching terms outlined by trout, then what good are they?

Which hopper fly is the best fly pattern? Color combinations for chubby chernobyls, dave's hopper, morrish hopper and others

The Colorful World of Grasshoppers: A Fly Tying Guide

Fly tying: What are the best colors for tying and fishing grasshoppers. Check out our breakdown.

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Weird Flies That Work: Perdiworm

Another weirdo that works great!

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Offseason: 2 Reads & 2 Flies

Offseason selections for readers and tiers

Trends in Fly Innovation: Classics to Breakthroughs

Trends in Fly Innovation: Classics to Breakthroughs

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

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

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Attracting Rises from Trout with Dry Flies

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

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Why Swinging Soft Hackles Works

It might be the oldest trick in the trout fly fishers playbook. Yet many people still don’t really know why swinging soft hackles work. It's hardly a natural presentation...

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

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Weird Flies That Work: Stanky Leg

the fly fishing equivalent of a tube jig

Favorite Flies for fishing runoff: Pigsticker, Woolly Bugger, Cranefly, Tequeely, Polar Shrimp, Pat's Rubber Legs

Down But Not Out: Runoff

6 favorite flies for fishing runoff, when the rivers are running high, and dirty.

Streamer fly fishing on the Animas River, Durango, Colorado

How to Match the Hatch with Streamers

Fly fishing: We all know about the bugs... but what about the baitfish?

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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...

Fly fishing for carp with Umpqua's Headstand fly pattern, Egan's Headstand, Denver South Platte

Weird Flies that Work: Chartreuse Headstand

I have a slight obsession chartreuse fly patterns...

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Improving the Salmonfly Dry Fly

We walk through tying a modified 64 Impala fly pattern and clarify how to customize this recipe to match the hatch beyond the original

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Phantom Sculpins of the South Platte: Trout Don't Care What Your Fly Mimics

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

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3 Under Appreciated Fly Tying Materials Every Trout Angler Should Try

Fly Tying: I want to highlight some under-appreciated materials that look incredible

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Weird Flies That Work: Polar Shrimp

Fly fishing: An unexpected pattern to be treasured by a Rocky Mountain trout angler

The Elephant in the River

The Elephant in the River

Fly fishing: We're all going to have to deal with river overcrowding at some point in the future, if not already.

The Unforgivable Sins of Fly Tying

Do you know the unforgivable sins of fly tying?

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What Makes a Fly a Classic? Understanding Triggers and Timeless Patterns

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

Why Don't We See More Chartreuse in Stillwater Trout Flies?

Why Don't We See More Chartreuse in Stillwater Trout Flies?

Do you recall any chartreuse flies for trout when shopping at your average fly shop?

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Weird Flies That Work: Slovakian Super Heavy Nymph

Fly tying: Slovak Super Heavy nymphs are not messing around when it comes to getting deep.