Brevard, North Carolina is a town that’s near and dear to my heart. My dad’s family is from Charleston, South Carolina, and the mountains of North Carolina have long been their retreat from the summer swamp that is the low country.…
Small, brown and buggy, what more could you want in a nymph? The Evolution Clinger Mayfly is a simple Hare’s Ear-style nymph pattern from Flymen Fishing Company designed to imitate the mayfly clinger nymphs likely swimming in your home waters right…
I’m the worst gift giver there is; I’m not too proud to admit it. No matter how many hints you give me, no matter how much time I have to get the gift, I always end up scrambling and getting…
Start fly fishing and you’re sure to hear talk of “matching the hatch” constantly, whether you’re in a fly shop, on the river or just cruising around on Facebook. The concept is simple enough, making your fly choice to what’s…
You’ve put in a good day on the water; you’ve swapped flies, scouted new runs and you’ve even caught a few more than the guy across the river. Still though, there’s a tiny thought lodged in your reptilian angler brain…
This is the point in the year where we’d normally start talking about how cold its getting, how the sun sets a bit earlier, and how we all put start putting on our winter layer by gorging on burgers and…
Most trout anglers rejoice when the days get a bit shorter and colder. This is nature’s starting gun to set many of our salmonids into spawn mode, making for very good, very exciting fishing! In September we debuted our first…
Here is one of our trout fly boxes that went out in December. During the colder months we focus more on smaller size nymphs, worms, streamers and a few very small emerger and dry patterns. We have had some really…
I remember my first experience choosing flies as a budding fly fisherman. I would pick through an assortment at our local shop trying to envision which patterns would produce massive and elusive trout. Most of my selections included well known…
A look-back of our drift down the Deerfield with Harrison Anglers back in October. It was an overcast day but not too cold (the cooler full of beers kept us warm). The fish were biting and we reeled in 25+…