What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout? If your answer is casting a bug imitation that floats and then watching a fish rise to sip it off the surface, I’d say you fall in with the ...

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Inadvertently, I created a fly pattern that not only bounced along on the bottom, had the shape and shade of many species of caddis larva, and also had the strong attractant of adhering bubbles. Bingo ...

Flies using the fur of hares have been tied and fished effectively since the 1600s. In 1676, a pattern like what we might recognize today as a Hare’s Ear was described in the book “The Compleat Angler ...

The Pheasant Tail Nymph or Sawyer’s Pheasant Tail was first tied by Frank Sawyer in 1958. Frank, river keeper on the Hampshire Avon (The word “Avon” means river) was also a skilled fly tyer and author ...

During May the streams and rivers throughout Aroostook County tend to be high, fast and often a bit off-color too. This presents no great hurdle for shoreline bait and lure casters, but anglers who ...

an Andre’ Puyans nymph fly pattern using the recipes and instructions in The Founding Flies by Mike Valla and The Book of Fly Patterns by Eric Leiser Hook: #10 - 18 nymph, weighted Thread: gray Tail: ...