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Photo Credit: Jared JenkinsYour reel screams as fluorescent fly line unspools down river behind the largest dorsal fin you’ve ever seen. This is a common scene when you hook into cutbow! Equal parts pitbull, feral pig, and mutant trout, cutbows are a single-minded alpha predator that are all about packing on the pounds [...]

2021 is the year the team at Ascent Fly Fishing is dedicating to float fish as often as possible and we invite you to join us! There is no better way to fish over 10 miles of water in a day, get away from the crowds, and have you a shot at some truly [...]

                        The proverb “Waste not, want not” rings true in many areas of fly fishing. We continue to add dry fly floatant in the attempt to resurrect a soggy-bottomed grasshopper pattern, “seasoned anglers” (aka. OLD anglers) will invariably get on their knees to comb [...]

Big Fish Eat Big Flies, and if you would like frequent photo ops with monster trout you will need to learn to fish with streamers! In part 1 of our streamer series, we discussed how to rig streamers, the best rods for casting these big flies, lines, and leaders, and the knots that will [...]

Photo Credit: Pat BurkeStreamers - for most fly fishers they either love them or are intimidated and frustrated by them! These big flies imitate baitfish, leeches, crayfish, or minnows and specialize in catching the biggest, baddest meat-eaters in the river! More technical than your standard dry fly or nymph pattern, to fish [...]

Before I learned to write, I learned to fish, and back in March of 1987 my Mom recorded what I self-described as the "Best Day" of my young life! It was my first trip to the "Cross Eyed Cricket" trout ponds outside of Knoxville Tennessee and it was an experience that forever changed the [...]

Picture of 4-Year-Old Peter with his fishing game face on!It was almost 70 degrees last Saturday when I was fishing, midges were in the air, and my spring fever was real! However, with up to 4-feet of snow in the forecast for this weekend, I thought this might be a good opportunity to share [...]

The Reminder We ALL Need When Fishing in the SpringThe other week I received a call from 5280 Magazine and they were wanting to speak to me about fishing Colorado's South Platte River in a section called Deckers. While this gold medal section of river is held with equal parts love and hate by [...]