Tippets: Latitude & Longitude, Orange Accents for Fall Fishing

October 11, 2015 By: Erin Block

  • Unfished sea-run brown trout are a no-doubt incentive for travel. And Ross Purnell writes about a recent expedition to an island south of Tierra del Fuego, near Cape Horn, gambling on striking gold. Via Fly Fisherman.
  • Read Kirk Deeter’s observations and experimentation with orange accents and attractor patterns, and why the color can work in your favor. “For starters, fall is when the leaves drop, and there is more natural flotsam riding along the surface than at most other times of the year,” Deeter writes. “I can see the fly better, and that leads to better reaction time on the hook-set, especially in lumpy, foamy water.” Via Field & Stream.