Darin’s Coho Candy is a Great Lakes tributary dry fly for coho salmon. The fly is intended to be fished down and across stream (on the swing) as a waking fly. It can also be stripped like a popper to add additional surface disturbance in slower pools and runs. Fly Material List: Black thread 1…
Join me on Monday, September 18, 2017 at 7pm for a FREE seminar on Fly Fishing Wisconsin’s Tributary rivers for trout and salmon. The event will be hosted by the Trout Unlimited, Blackhawk Chapter #390 at: Blackhawk Technical College 6004 S County G Highway Janesville, WI 53546
I ran across a recent post on a Facebook fly fishing group where an angler was asking for helping getting his child interested in fly fishing and away from his youthful, digital lifestyle. As expected, the advice he received ranged from basic common sense to extreme beatings and violent disposal of his iPad and video…
Two years ago I decided to visit some of the local trout streams near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where I was introduced to The Way of a Trout with a Fly (thank you G. E. M. Skues). Despite the advance of civilization, the drive was a refreshing tour past Amish farms and rural countryside that, it…
To paraphrase W. C. Fields, “ I never drink water, I know what fish do in it.” I have been warned by my editor not to pick on bass or carp fishermen so I will assume that every fly angler has a favorite beverage they drink to keep snakes away and that THE favorite drink…
The art of fly tying is just that; Art. Each crafted fly, in it’s true essence, is an impressionistic sculpture where form and function are joined in a spiritual union. While the average fly tier may be unaware of Louis Sullivan’s axiom “form follows function” and Frank Lloyd Wright’s belief that “form and function are…
I love rowing a drift boat. Time on the oars puts me in a meditative state and I become one with the current. Let’s face it, when you’re fishing you concentrate on where you are casting. In a day of throwing streamers or dries, a full day can pass and you rarely lifted your eyes…
The 2015 spring steelhead season is fast approaching and booking for beginner classes is now open. When choosing a date for your class, keep in mind that run timing varies from year to year and weather plays an important role in steelhead migration. The peak of the migration generally occurs around the last week of…
This may sound strange but when I’m fishing with a guide, I’m much more interested in the education they can provide than actually catching fish. I rate the value of the day not on the number of fish I caught, or the size, but the amount of information that was shared and the quality of…
When I began steelhead fishing back in the early 90’s, the primary fly fishing method in Great Lakes tributaries was mostly chuck-and-dunk. A fly was tied about eight-inches behind enough weight to sink it to the bottom of the river and the fly was “ticked” along the gravel in current seams. Egg patterns, spring wigglers…