Tag: streamers

"I head out for a Pennsylvania winter fly fishing outing after some fresh fallen snow. I am fishing a class A Pennsylvania trout stream in Lycoming County for brook trout and wild brown trout. The fishing conditions were particular tough this day as snow melt had water levels much higher than usual and temps very low. I attempted various tactics such as...

In a recent piece from George Daniel over at Fly Fisherman Magazine, he details some great tips and tricks for fishing streamers. For years, I shied away from fishing streamers, simply because I didn't know where to start. Now, though, streamers are my fly of choice for most of my big-water fishing. Take some time to read through this piece, and apply a...

In this article, Chris Hunt writes about his secret for tying articulated streamers. “Whether you’re tying full-on articulated patterns or just tying streamers with trailing “stinger” hooks, the secret isn’t in knots or, depending on the type of fish you’re after, in the material you use to connect the main body of the fly to trailing section...

While we love throwing streamers year-round, there's no doubt that it can be super productive as fish start to pack on pounds as the colder temperatures and shorter days of winter approach. Whether from a boat or walk-wading, you never know what you'll connect with if you dedicate a day or season to tossing streamers.

Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia and co-author of the book Simple Fly Fishing, is the guest on a recent episode of The Itinerant Angler podcast. “Listen as he outlines a lifetime of experience in trimming the fat and getting to the core of things. His philosophy, at odds with many aspects of our society, is as enlightening as it is unusual.” Given...

Kelly Galloup: “This is my Olive Cripple. A lot of you know me for my streamers and stuff like that, but before I started the streamer game, for probably the first 25 years of my guide life I was basically a technical dry fly guy and steelhead guy. We didn't do a lot of streamer fishing back then. Hardly anybody nymph fished, people out west a little bit...

Patagonia is a land of soaring mountains, wide gravel roads, cold blue rivers, and legion trout.  The fact that it's smack full of sun while the Northern Hemisphere is chock full of snow only adds to the allure.  Throw in nightly feasts of local lamb, beef, wine, wine and more wine, and you've got a veritable paradise for any red-blooded angler.  I...

I just returned from an extraordinary fly fishing trip at Lake Athabasca, in northern Saskatchewan. Fishing with Trout Unlimited’s national communications director, Chris Hunt, out of Blackmur’s Athabasca Lodges, we caught more healthy northern pike on the fly than either of us could have imagined. Why more fly fishers do not respect and actively seek...

MIDCURRENT SAT DOWN with James Babb, the longtime editor of Gray’s Sporting Journal and author of Crosscurrents: A Fly Fisher’s Progress; River Music: A Fly Fisher’s Four Seasons; and Fly-Fishin’ Fool: The Adventures, Misadventures, and Outright Idiocies of a Compulsive Angler, to discuss friends, family, fly patterns, fly tying, and a life spent on...