A large portion of a trout’s diet comes from sub-surface insects, like caddis larva, midges and other macroinvertebrates – that’s where nymphing comes in. To catch trout and other fish feeding below the water’s surface, grab some stoneflies and midges…
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How to Fish Sculpin Patterns for Predatory Winter Trout
A Sculpin is one of a trouts favorite snacks. Due to the sculpins ability to live in fast running streams and rivers, they are wildly abundant. Found in varying color combinations depending on where you live and what rivers you…
What is “Tight-Line Nymphing”?
Tight-Line Nymphing is known by a few different names depending on who you talk to. Euro-Nymphing, Czech Nymphing, all describe the basic style of using a long single handed fly rod and a longer leader to present sub-surface flies. This…
The Wade Quiver: The Nymphster
What is the Nymphster? The Nymphster is a 10 ft 4-weight rod designed for tight-line nymphing for trout. This is a technique that has recently become a popular alternative to the more common indicator nymphing (fishing with nymphs below a floating…
Tying Up Le Bugs To Catch Le Fish!
When looking buggy is the name of the game this is the fly that’s gonna put a fish on the end of your line. Isn’t looking buggy always the name of the game? Well, yes young grasshopper, however, we’ve all experienced…
8 Tips to Better Nymphing
Hank Patterson puts on an absolute clinic on nymph fishing. Or as he calls it – the exact opposite of why we all got into fly fishing in the first place. Jokes aside, if you are new to fly fishing,…