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THE FLY FISHING CHRONICLES OF YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (part 5)
The Firehole River is one of the most storied of the rivers contained within the boundaries of Yellowstone National Park. Many...

LATE & EARLY SEASON FISHING AT DEPUY'S SPRING CREEK (part 8 )
Next I'd like to discuss tactics and techniques in more details. This chapter covers more details for fishing with streamers and large...

TOUGH DAY
It was a day off and time to head to a pond. IGgt everything loaded and headed out. Today I went to a pond that I have not been to for a year or more. I got permission to access the pond...

GATHERING HACKLE
The loud double-gobble broke the silence of the pre-dawn air, with adrenalin raising the hair on my forearms and instantly increasing my heart rate. Without hesitation I knew I...

WOODCHUCK SKUNK
This pattern was authored by Ann Schweigert of Roscommon, Michigan. The pattern is a variation of the Madsen Skunk developed by Earl Madsen sometime between 1930-1950. The fly...

THE BIG ONE THAT DID NOT GET AWAY!
It is no secret to anyone who knows me that my favorite place to go fishing is Montana. This year I decided to go the first week of April, with the hopes of...

MATCHING THE HATCH
This is a revised edition of the long time classic by the late Ernie Schwiebert. This volume was one of the projects that Ernie was working on prior to his passing, however due...

THE ROD
A rod, specifically a fly rod, is a tool and as such what one can do with it depends upon the skill of the user. One of the things that I remember when I was teaching fly casting was that...

FLY FISHING CHRONICLES OF THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (part 4)
As you enter the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park which is located on the outskirts of Gardiner Montana you don't drive...

LATE & EARLY SEASON FISHING AT DEPUY'S SPRING CREEK (part 7)
Bugs: Midges can be seen even during winter months as discussed in PART 5. Then spring BWO start to be observed from any time in March....

RELEVANCE
I fly fish a lot. Twelve months of the year and well over 100 days a year on freestone streams and rivers in the Intermountain West and Northern Rockies. Virtually all the trout I fish...

SERENDIPITOUS PMD EMERGERS
Not as in Serendipity, which is a famous fly, but as in serendipitous, like when a bunch of things come together to cause a particular result. Without listing all the...

REPEAT TRY
It is a week later. I have tied up a few other flies and want to try them on those short strikers. I don't very often hit a pond twice in a row, but I want to know if my experiments will...

BUCKTAILS
Closing the back hatch on the Xterra, I turned in clumsy wader boots fighting the loose gravel and headed for the water. It was an early spring morning and today I would be hunting trout....

REMEMBRANCES OF JC
I'm certain that there are readers of Fly Anglers Online that don't remember JC, aka Castwell, but he was an integral part of this online magazine for many years before his death...

NO PATTERN
I had a day off and it was time to hit a pond. I had some other things to do early in the morning so it was late morning before I got to the pond.
We were experiencing the drought in...

CRAPPIE FLY FISHING
I remember spending many hours sitting in a 12 foot aluminum boat in Southern Lower Michigan back in the 60's fishing for crappie. Mostly I was using a live minnow and a bobber,...

BLUEGILL EYESIGHT - ONCE AGAIN
The best tied fly in the world can't catch fish that don't know it's there.
Once again we'll discuss bluegill vision. We've been there and you might also want to...

HOMEWARD BOUND
The winter is quickly coming to a close and it's time to go home. Winter in southern Arizona is real nice when the snow is piling up along the trout streams of my Montana home, and...

15 FEET AWAY
PROLOGUE: I'm in the middle of enjoying spring weather and great fishing at DePuy Spring Creek (www.depuyspringcreek.com) in Paradise Valley, MT. I may be supposed to update my blog or...

SOFT HACKLE IMITATIONS FISHED AS DRY FLIES
Over the past couple of years I have written fairly extensively about the effectiveness of Soft Hackle imitations and I written about the **history of...

FIRST TROUT
My son just turned 4 over Easter weekend. For his birthday we bought him a gift he's been talking about for nearly a year; Spiderman fishing pole. He was so excited. After opening the...

BOB ANDERSON PANFISH FLIES
This series of flies came about because of the death of a friend. Bob Anderson got me started in Fly Tying long ago. He gave me his equipment and a few books. That got me...

THE FLY FISHING CHRONICLES OF YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK (part 3)
In late August through early September this is the time period that I want to on the Lamar River as often as I can and the reason is...

LATE & EARLY SEASON FISHING AT DUPUY'S SPRING CREEK (part 6)
Rainbow Time: Winter usually loosens its grips in March. From early March, rainbows are coming from the Yellowstone River into DePuy's...