Skip to main content

Summer Fly-Fishing Tactics for Panfish

When the temperature rises, abandon the trout and seek out sunfish.

Bart Lombardo

Fly Fisherman Throwback: Converting to Smallmouth

If you love rivers and feisty fish, try flies on smallmouth bass.

Larry Dahlberg

Best Smallmouth Bass Flies

Here is a brief list of the Best Smallmouth Bass Flies available today with some insight on

Ben Romans

Dave Whitlock's "Stalking the Golden Ghost"

The lowly carp may be our smartest and most challenging freshwater gamefish.

Dave Whitlock

Fly Fishing Ghetto Bass

Bringing fly rods to gravel pits behind auto dealerships, overflow ponds alongside freeways,

Jay Zimmerman

Fly Fisherman Throwback: Lessons of the Largemouth

Learn the bass's habits and you will understand why it is Number One.

Dave Whitlock

Chasing Chainmail: Targeting Gar with Rope Flies

Longnose gars are among the oldest freshwater fish—it's about time you caught one with fly

Trevor Ibsen

Magnificent October Stripers on California's Sacramento River Delta

Estuary offers some of the best big-fish opportunities in the United States for these

Mike Costello

Dave Whitlock's "Nymphing for Bass"

Effective ways to fly fish for reluctant smallmouth and largemouth bass.

Dave Whitlock

Slab-Sided Bundles of Energy: Huge Bluegills on the Fly

Start your quest for 2-pound 'gills on deep summer spawning sites.

Jim Dean

Advertisement
Fly Fisherman Magazine Covers Print and Tablet Versions

GET THE MAGAZINE Subscribe & Save

Digital Now Included!

SUBSCRIBE NOW

Give a Gift   |   Subscriber Services

PREVIEW THIS MONTH'S ISSUE

Buy Digital Single Issues

Magazine App Logo

Don't miss an issue.
Buy single digital issue for your phone or tablet.

Buy Single Digital Issue on the Fly Fisherman App

Other Magazines

See All Other Magazines

Special Interest Magazines

See All Special Interest Magazines

GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing.

Get the top Fly Fisherman stories delivered right to your inbox.

Phone Icon

Get Digital Access.

All Fly Fisherman subscribers now have digital access to their magazine content. This means you have the option to read your magazine on most popular phones and tablets.

To get started, click the link below to visit mymagnow.com and learn how to access your digital magazine.

Get Digital Access

Not a Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Enjoying What You're Reading?

Get a Full Year
of Guns & Ammo
& Digital Access.

Offer only for new subscribers.

Subscribe Now

Never Miss a Thing.

Get the Newsletter

Get the top Fly Fisherman stories delivered right to your inbox.

By signing up, I acknowledge that my email address is valid, and have read and accept the Terms of Use