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July 15, 2024

4 Things to Know when Fly Fishing Beaver Ponds
What is there not to love about fly fishing in beaver ponds?! These hybrid trout habitats offer the angler the best of both worlds with their numerous ponds tied together by a series of braided streams. Beavers typically build their...
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July 15, 2024

4 Considerations for Fly Fishing During a Drought
While I’m keeping my fingers crossed in the hope of blankets of heavy spring snows that will help to keep our trout streams full of cold water, the pressing reality we need to prepare for is the continuation of the...
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May 21, 2021

3 Tips to Help You Float Fish Like A Pro
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 [...]
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May 18, 2021

Fly Fishing Rigs for Leader & Tippet Tags
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 [...]
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May 18, 2021

Fly Fishing with Streamer – Part 2 On the Water
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 [...]
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May 18, 2021

Fly Fishing with Streamer – Part I: Rigging
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 [...]
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May 18, 2021

The Best Day of My Life - The Day I Learned to Fish By: Peter Stitcher
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 [...]
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May 18, 2021

Some Favorite Fishing Momentsfrom the Ascent Community
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 [...]
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May 18, 2021

The Reminder We ALL Need When Fishing in the Spring
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 [...]
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