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...
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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
A streamer box is a different storage problem than a dry-fly or nymph box, and the difference comes straight from the flies it has to hold. Streamers...
Euro Nymphing: The Ultimate Guide
Euro nymphing is a family of tight-line, contact nymphing techniques (with Czech, Polish, French, and Spanish lineages) that drift weighted flies along...
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...
Best Euro Nymphing Rods
Euro nymphing is the modern collective name for a family of European tight-line nymphing techniques (Czech, Polish, French, and Spanish lineages) that...
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...