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Photo Credit: Brittany ComerThere is an anticipation that has always kept me awake the night before a fishing trip. It has been this way since the since my first trip to a Smoky Mountain stream at the age of 4, and even now - after 30 years and thousands of days logged on the river [...]

This week we have an informative chat with Pete Stitcher of Ascent Fly Fishing. Ascent is a biologist owned and operated fly shop committed to getting you the right flies for the waters you fish. Self-proclaimed "fly geek" Pete has grown his company into a vibrant global fly fishing company. We dig deep into the [...]

What makes someone a truly amazing fly fisher? There are a lot of people who catch fish, and some people even have a knack for netting truly big fish, but what are the keys that sperate the good anglers from those who are almost clairvoyant in their ability to find and consistently catch more [...]

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 [...]