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Fly fishing articles tagged with rivers

effects of catch and release angling, how does fly fishing affect trout behavior?

catch and release

Catch and Release: How do fish respond to fishing pressure?

By practicing catch and release we actively alter our favorite rivers and lakes and influence the dynamics of the fishery.

tips for catching more trout while fly fishing

Stay on Schedule to Find Success

Start the clock to figure out hatches or overcome challenging days on the water

comparing fly fishing from a drift boat to wade fishing, how to catch rates compare? Euro nymphing, indicator nymphing, streamers, dry flies

Drift vs Wade: By the Numbers

Comparing success rates for wade anglers vs drift boat anglers

fish pale pat's rubber legs fly patterns when fly fishing the stonefly molt

weird flies that work

The Stonefly Molt: Timing and Patterns for Trout

fly fishing, story, brown trout, stillwater, coho, smallmouth bass, carp, wiper, striped bass, how to fly fish

Story From The Road: A Year Spent Avoiding the Familiar

What happens when all of your favorite spots were suddenly black listed? A year chasing new water

fly fishing soft hackles, pheasant tail, india hen, golden pheasant tippets, fly tying, saddle, partridge, grouse, grizzly, wet fly, wetfly, flymph

Active vs Passive Flies

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

Thingamabobbers, New Zealand Strike Indicators, Football Indicators, Oros, Airlock, strike indicator fly fishing, indicator nymphing

indicator nymphing

Indicator Selection and Drift Success

Not all indicators are created equally, and each has its advantage, and disadvantage.

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.

USGS Gauging Station on the Dream Stream, South Platte River, Colorado

Tracking the End of Runoff with Hydrographs: Tips for River Anglers

when to expect clear conditions after runoff?

fly fishing hoppers, attractors, dry flies, royal wulff, chubby chernobyl, which colors work and why?

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Exploring LaFontaine's Color Theory of Attractors

this goes way beyond bright day, bright fly...

left handed vs right handed fly fishing, how to get a good drift, dead drift success, fly casting, how to cast fly line

Lefty or Righty? It Affects Your Drift

Have you ever thought about how your casting arm affects your fly presentation?

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...

Hot Bead Get Down Sow Jig Fly, Euronymph, euro nymph, tightline nymph, czech nymph, fly fishing

Are Trout Just Eating The Bead?

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

trout vision Featured

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

Reviewing Sunray's NoKnot Kevlar EZ Back Cast fly line

Reviewing Sunray's New Fly Line With Kevlar Core

Notes from our first time out with the no stretch kevlar core of Sunray's new EZ Back Cast fly line

stanky leg fly pattern, tube jig fly pattern, crayfish fly pattern, euro nymphing fly pattern

Weird Flies That Work: Stanky Leg

the fly fishing equivalent of a tube jig

Nymphing with heavy flies or splitshot to get a trout's attention, ESN, indicator nymphing, fly fishing

nymphing Featured

Nymphing vs Turbulence

The nymphing angler is locked in a perennial quest to fish deeper because rivers fight back...

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?

Conservation Concept: Ecosystem Services and Externalities

conservation concept

Conservation Concept: Ecosystem Services and Externalities

Exploring the concept of ecosystem services and environmental externalities

don't get skunked while fly fishing

The Skunk Set Me Free: Reflections on Leaving the Nymphing Highway

Getting skunked, catching nothing, was never an acceptable outcome.... until I realized different

Releasing a pre-spawn Wyoming Brown Trout

5 Tips for Landing Those Big Fish on Your Fly Rod

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...

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

grasshoppers Featured

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...

Temple Fork Outfitters, Axiom II-X fly rod, an affordable TFO masterpiece

Instant Favorite: TFO Axiom II-X Fly Rod Review

This fly rod has become an instant favorite, reviewing the tfo axiom 2-x fly rod