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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 [...]

How Do We Share the Water Well?Photo: Colorado Trout Hunter Guide Chelsey Christy & client With the sport of fly fishing exploding in popularity we have seen a host of new fly fishers on the water, and this can be both exciting and frustrating as anglers increasingly crowd local waters. While it is great to [...]

               If you want to catch fish today, tomorrow, and in the weeks to come, you need to get in the habit of seining the water. It is only by seining the water that we can get a view of what's happening on the bottom of the river and observe [...]

If you want to be a more successful angler on the fly, the fly rod and line need to become an extension of your arm. This may sound overly dramatic or implausible, but I assure you that it is possible with some changes to how you set up rig your line and flies, and the [...]

Introducing Boss Tin's Non-Toxic Fishing WeightsBy Guest Writers Stetson & Cia AdkissonYou wouldn't purposely put something toxic in your drinking water or in the pond where your kids play, but you might inadvertently be doing that every time you cast a lead-weighted line into the water. Boss Tin is a fishing accessories manufacturer committed to [...]

Check out the:Ask About Fly Fishing Podcast"What Fly for What Bug?" with Ascent Fly Fishing's Peter Stitcher Last week I had the distinct pleasure of joining Roger Maves for his podcast "Ask About Fly Fishing". Started back all the way in 2006, Ask About Fly Fishing is one of the most informative and respected sources [...]