Met up with Brian from the Downey Fly Fishers Club and watched him make a cicada, a really great trout fly, and can also be used as an indicator when nymphing. He gave me one and on my first cast under a tree I caught some nice largemouth bass. It was originally used for trout and has worked really Read more...

Let’s face it, we dream in Technicolor of size 10 green drake hatches or Hexagenia Limbata as big as beavers – but the reality is Winter Time Is Midge Time. Often the only bugs on the frigid water are so small; they challenge most anglers to consider LASIK. And as you already know, much of the eating is under the surface. At a fly-tying class, I once heard a locally famous fly tier named Pops quip Read more...

Fly fishing, in all it’s variations and sub-areas (casting, fly tying, etc), centres around a single goal – To successfully tempt a fish (Most commonly a trout) to take an artificial fly as a food item. Sighting, hooking, playing and landing the fish are also important parts of the successful fishing experience, not to mention being able to get the fly to the fish in the first place, by Read more...