Under waders you want a thin wicking layer, never cotton or jeans, and warm layers on top when the water is cold. What to wear in summer and in winter.
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How to Fly Fish for Tarpon
You fly fish for tarpon by finding them before you cast to them, and you find them because of how they breathe. A tarpon's swim bladder contains...
Fly Fishing for Permit
The permit is widely considered the most difficult fish to catch on a fly, and the reasons are not a matter of luck. A permit (Trachinotus falcatus)...
Best Streamer Fly Box
Streamers need bigger, deeper boxes than dries and nymphs. What a good streamer box needs and the ones we recommend.
Euro Nymphing: The Ultimate Guide
Euro nymphing explained: the rig, how to fish the drift, and the rods, reels, tippet and flies we recommend.
Costa vs Smith Fishing Sunglasses
Costa and Smith make the two most consequential lines of polarized fishing sunglasses on the market, and the choice between them is not really a...
how to mend fly line
Mending is the act of repositioning the belly of the fly line on the water after the cast lands, in order to delay or eliminate the drag that current...
what is spey casting
Spey casting is a two-handed fly casting technique that uses the surface tension of the water to anchor the leader and load the rod, rather than...
emerger flies for trout
An emerger fly imitates an aquatic insect in the brief window between the nymph stage and the fully winged adult. The nymph has swum or crawled to the...
fly fishing hatch chart
A hatch chart is a calendar of which aquatic insects emerge in which months on which water types, what life stage matters at each window, and what fly...