My Dutch buddy, Theo Bakelaar, was here in June to fish for stripers on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard. It can be a fabulous fishery when things are right, and Theo hit in spot on. There can be good fishing both day and night, with the dark hours usually trumping the daylight. Interestingly, the big [...]
My friend Keith Scott, Bluesman, performs 200 shows a year throughout the US and Canada, and Europe keithscottheavyblues.com/. On top of that. he’s a maniac fly fisher. He performed at Malarkeys Pub here in Wausau the other night and we started talking about smallmouth bass. Then yesterday I received an inquiry from Chris McCall regarding [...]
Jason has been giving the smallies a hard time in recent days. Not that they don’t deserve it, it’s just that I wish I was there havin at ‘em, too. In our forthcoming book, Long Flies, I discuss a tactic called the jigging Swing that is one of the most deadly tactics for smallies, trout, [...]
Another excerpt from our upcoming book Long Flies. This story is “hot off the press” because it’s a story about a fishing experience I had last week in Alaska. Some anglers have difficulty considering these actual fly fishing tactics, and that’s okay as long as they don’t try to make others stop using these tactics. [...]
This story is from last week’s Alaska trip and will appear in our forthcoming book, Long Flies. The week was cold, rainy and very windy. We had one afternoon of sun, and that happened to be the day the chums were on the shallow bars.It was fishing extraordinaire, as the story tells. Alaska’s Alagnak [...]
I received a question about John Beth’s bunny flies and his other “giant killers” that he uses for Lake Michigan tributary salmon, browns, and steelhead. The question asks: “Hello! Do these flies ride hook up or hook down? I see the eyes on top of the hook (like a clouser) so I would think they [...]
I mentioned this in an earlier post, but wanted to show it in photos to make clear what I was discussing. This is a tactic that my friend, Dr. Gary Eaton, uses when fishing minnow imitations on the spring creeks of Missouri and other streams with a gravel bottom. The shot is attached to the [...]
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