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  • How to Match Dry Flies from a Distance
    September 6, 2018

    How to Match Dry Flies from a Distance

    Knowledge is power, and in the case of the fly fisher, the greater your ability to identify the insects that trout feed on and choose the correct fly pattern, the more successful you will be on the water. The adult, or dry life cycle, of aquatic insects is brief. Mayflies will spend 6-12 months [...]
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  • The 5 Steps to Choosing the Best Fly Pattern
    July 26, 2017

    The 5 Steps to Choosing the Best Fly Pattern

    (This article is a follow up to a previous article titled “Take a Moment and PAUSE” published first in July of 2016 and describing the 5 places around and in the river to identify what foods trout are most likely eating. If you haven’t read that article, take a moment to do so on [...]
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  • A Fly Fisher's Guide to Identifying and Matching Mayflies: Part II
    January 15, 2017

    A Fly Fisher's Guide to Identifying and Matching Mayflies: Part II

    The importance of the mayfly in the diet of trout cannot be overstated. In my work as an aquatic biologist studying and sampling trout waters across country, I've seen populations of Blue Winged Olive mayfly nymphs crowding Rocky Mountain streams topping numbers of 1,200 nymphs per square meter, slow moving herds of green drake [...]
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  • How to Read Hatch Charts and Match the Hatch Year Round
    November 23, 2016

    How to Read Hatch Charts and Match the Hatch Year Round

    Available for most popular trout lakes and rivers with a quick Google search, hatch charts can provide an angler with the basic knowledge of which aquatic insects will be present in a specific water and when the adult insects will be active. While all fly fishers love to fish the dry fly patterns highlighted [...]
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  • The P.A.U.S.E. Method for Matching the Hatch
    July 20, 2016

    The P.A.U.S.E. Method for Matching the Hatch

    Exhale.... You've done it. You've successfully escaped the office. You've tunneled under the suburb's privacy fences, and the incessant drone cell phones and email notifications are fading into the distance behind you. In front of you lies a day without obligation and a river full of potential with the promise of [...]
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  • A Fly Fisher's Guide to Identifying and Matching Stoneflies: Part 2
    June 6, 2016

    A Fly Fisher's Guide to Identifying and Matching Stoneflies: Part 2

    I'm not interested in simply filling your head with scientific bug names and entomology facts. While we took an in-depth look at the characteristics that will enable the fly fisher to identify stonefly nymphs and adults at a glance in last month's article, The Rise of the Stonefly, that information won't do you any [...]
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