Tippets: Simple Flies, Fish Lift, Tactics for High Water

May 25, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • Sometimes simpler is better in fly design, writes Kirk Deeter. For a great example, check out Charlie Craven’s “Mole Fly,” one of the most “deadly effective” dry fly patterns on the market today. Via Field & Stream.
  • California’s drought is requiring state and federal agencies in the state to deploy a “fish-lift,” using tanker trucks to transport hatchery salmon downstream to the San Francisco Bay. Via Oregon Live.
  • Spring runoff has begun in earnest, and in a recent article Tim Linehan of Linehan Outfitting Co. has some great advice for fishing the high, off-colored water.