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For those of you who have had the pleasure of fishing the salt flats, you know that it can be intoxicating! As I write these words from the deck of La Pescadora Fishing Lodge on Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, I am being called by the ocean swells breaking 50 yards away and can’t wait for [...]

Not all tippet and leader are created equal. Monofilament or nylon line has been around since the 1950s and while relatively inexpensive and excellent for fishing dry flies, it has some major disadvantages when fishing wet flies or targeting skittish fish. The answer to these problems came in the mid-’70s with the invention of fluorocarbon [...]

Being used to the slow and winding commute along Rocky Mountain river canyons, my adrenaline was pumping as the guide gunned his flats boat through hairpin turns and narrow creeks of North Carolina’s outer banks. The target this particular morning were Redfish (Red Drum) and Speckled trout, and I had enlisted the expertise [...]

“When should I use a beadhead fly vs an unweighted fly?” is a question that I receive from anglers at least 50 times a year. For most wet fly, nymph, and larva patterns there are both weighted (topped with a brass or tungsten beadhead) and unweighted options and each variety has its own [...]

Take a trip with me back in time to the year 1987. You were the coolest cat on the neighborhood, tearing down the road in your Z28 Camaro with the T-top off, your pants tight as a fashion statement and not yet a symptom of middle age, your hair long and still on your head, [...]

I still remember the first time I saw someone tie on a dry fly with a nymph dropper hanging off the curve of the hook, and I thought my head was going to explode! I was struck by the brilliance of being able to cover and fish multiple layers of the water column simultaneously [...]

Each Fall as the Brown & Brook trout, Kokanee, and Whitefish start to spawn, eggs move to the top of the menu, making PEG EGGS a must-have tool for the Fall and Winter fly fisher! Since time out of mind in rivers around the globe, trout have spawned, laying their eggs in ancient gravels, only to [...]

Tucked into a side street in old town Littleton, Colorado, and just a quarter-mile from the trout-rich waters of the South Platte River, sits an unassuming small blue bungalow that is the GraceFull Community Café. While not what most anglers would think of as an enclave of fly fishers, GraceFull Community Café is home [...]

By Guest Author & Homewater Fly Fishing Owner - Adam Beede The colors of Fall have set in around much of Colorado! From the frosty chilly mornings to the gorgeous Aspen fields and the last bursts of warm days before mid-winter, Fall is upon us. During this time, those willing to gaze through the deep riffles [...]