Fly Tying

Letort Hopper

Letort-Hopper

Recipe: Hook: TMC 100SP-BL #10-16 Thread: Yellow 3/0 Monocord Abdomen: Pale Yellow Dubbing Wing: Turkey Wing Fibers, coated with vinyl cement Collar and Head: Natural Deer hair

Features

Stillwater1

  One of my great fly-fishing pleasures is bugging for smallmouth along the shores of a beautiful lake. I don’t…»

Streamers2

  Those of us who have experienced the excitement of hooking wild, stream smallmouth on a fly can’t help but…»

Nymph1

The riffle gradually smoothed into a foamy green run, except for several swirling breaks as the water flowed over a…»

Surface1

  I was fortunate to discover fly fishing over 60 years ago and of all the techniques I’ve used and…»

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[This article provides background information and natural history on longfin squid, an important spring and early summer prey for striped…»

Seasons Of The Sunfish

I’d like you to consider three questions: What is the first fish most of us catch on a fly? What…»

Two Yurt rainbows average 18 to 22 inches and 4 to 6 pounds. No one has fished the remote wilderness river since 2008.

  Kamchatka is about the size of Texas and shares the same longitude and Pacific rim geography as Alaska. However,…»

Appalachian Mountain Club Brook Trout

The Appalachian Mountain Club is enhancing a last stronghold of wilderness brook-trout habitat in Maine. In the firmament of fishes,…»