Smallmouth bass are one of my favorite fish of all time. They fight well and eat flies like fish are supposed to. They can be picky from time to time, especially if they are a solo fish on the hunt. Having so winner flies in box will help make your […]
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I was out with my local fly fishing club, the Linn-Benton Fly Fishers, and we caught some fish. Also just to reiterate, Frank is all good just more wet then he was when he started fishing that day. We are doing this again in a couple weeks, the first monday […]
On the way home from Central Oregon last year I fished along the highway on the North Santiam River. The water was freezing but I managed to get a couple fish in the cloudy glacier run-off. If you have any questions let me know down below or shoot me a […]
The Clouser Minnow was a gateway fly for me. When I was just starting my fly fishing and tying journey way back in the day of 2009, this was one of the first flies that I tied to terrorize the local smallmouth. The fly was simple and quick to tie […]
I was recently on the Wet Fly Swing Podcast hosted by Dave Stewart. On the show we talked fly tying for euro nymphs and some of my recent fishing. This show was recorded back in May before the heat wave this year and before I switched over to lakes, salt, […]
Pre-spawn time is the one of the best times of the year to catch massive smallmouths. Anglers that go after record fish, fish the pre-spawn. This is when the fish are moving out of cooler deep water to stage for the spawn and are ready to feed to have enough […]