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Fly fishing articles tagged with predator/prey

When fly fishing for muskie, northern pike, largemouth bass and smallmouth bass, are larger flies better for catching big fish?

Big Flies For Big Fish... right?

Big flies equals big fish, at least that's what we're all told. Is it actually true?

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

Releasing a pre-spawn Wyoming Brown Trout

5 Tips for Landing Those Big Fish

To be a true angler you need to experience the heartbreak of losing a big fish. Here's how to stack the odds in your favor so that doesn't happen...

Useful Biology: What A Fish Tail Teaches Anglers

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Useful Biology: What A Fish Tail Teaches Anglers

We can learn clues about fish by simply understanding how tail shapes differ (Fly Fishing)

pink pookie fly pattern, pink grasshopper fly pattern, pink hopper fly

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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...

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

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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?

Releasing a Rainbow trout from the Pueblo Tailwater, Colorado

The Dynamics of Fish Spooking

Why do fish spook? Why don't fish spook? Let's investigate.