Category Archives: Techniques

“You’ve got sorry loops on your backcast,” Lefty said to one fly casting clinic participant.  Later in the day, Lefty told Chris Santella that his backcast was “sorry” as well.  No matter.  Lefty Kreh’s audience listens because of his “rock … more →

Standing in a frozen river, covering giant amounts of water, and doing it all alone is not many people’s idea of a hobby, much less an obsession.  But it’s what winter steelhead fly fishermen do whenever they have the opportunity.  … more →

Andrew Wayment, author of Heaven On Earth, comes across as a pretty good teacher and a great fly fisher, making his “Twenty Things Every Fly Fisher Should Know” useful for just about anyone.  From practical (“Streamers catch bigger fish”), to … more →

No form of “fly” fishing is as shrouded in mystery and allure as fishing with a mouse pattern.  Perhaps it’s because of the massive fish that have been taken with a mouse pattern, or because it is mostly done at … more →

Tim Schulz thought that his friend Warren, equipped with only a woolly bugger, two zug bugs, two prince nymphs, a muddler minnow, and three large royal wulffs for a very technical hatch on Michigan’s Escanaba River, was dead-in-the-water.  ”Warren went on … more →

John Frazier of Fly Fishing in Saltwaters sat down with three saltwater experts, Andy Mill, Nick Sassic, and Craig Cantelmo, to talk about “feeding” the fish.  Because your cast, even if is a 100-foot beauty, will only get you so far, … more →