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New Fly Guy

New Fly Guy – A Devastating New Trick?

Update: I tried to do this.  It turns out that “floating trout worms” don’t really float like a popper.  They drift in the middle of the water column and do not give the effect I envisoned.  I still need to try this with spin gear using the Gulp floating worms. I even tried cutting out

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New Fly Guy – Summer Fly Fishing Advice from TheFlyStop

In case you did not see this from TheFlyStop… good info and great prices on flies! Summer Fly Fishing Summer Fly Fishing can fluctuate greatly based on location and weather patterns.  Often you can find yourself faced with extremely finicky fish and low water conditions.  The Trout have been fished over long and hard for several

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New Zealand Nymphing Technique

Contributing Author – Patrick Taylor Moormans – North Fork, July 5th 2009 I fished the North Fork of the Moormans today (July 5th) and had success. The water levels are dropping but it is still fishable (well maybe not after today’s constant rain!). The lower section is highly pressured due to easy access, so you have to

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New Fly Guy – Terrestrial Fishing Advice from TheFlyStop

In case you did not see this from TheFlyStop… good info and great prices on flies! Terrestrial Fishing Depending on where you do your fishing, some of the best Terrestrial fishing of the year is just starting out, or will be in full swing shortly.  Terrestrial fishing can be an enjoyable change of pace on the

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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire?

“Really honey, it was THIS big!”  Who has not exaggerated the size of the catch? After all, fishing is one of the areas where, for many of us, size does matter. The reason we all have such a poor reputation for honesty is that none of us has eyeballs that are calibrated with anything approaching

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New Fly Guy – The Box Solution

It’s been over three years since I started my journey into flyfishing. In that time, I evolved through many different approaches to storing and carrying flies. I’ve been a bit frustrated with all of them because the boxes I was using took up so much space. Part of it was that, as a new fly

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New Fly Guy – Internet Casting School

By this time of year, you are far enough into the fishing season where you realize your casting leaves something to be desired.  That was certainly my problem and I found a quick, free review that was very helpful on Dusty Wissmath’s website.  In addition to the 4 videos below, he has additional content on rod

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New Fly Guy – Solve line droop

There are a few things you can do if the tip of your fly line keeps sinking and ruining the drift of your fly.  This is something that is more likely to happen in turbulence or a fast current. You can do is put some paste floatant on the tip of your fly line or

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New Fly Guy – The Fly Rod Bass Rig

About eight years ago, I had an epiphany as I wandered the aisles of Bass Pro Shop. Up to that point, I had pretty much been a fisherman who relied on spinners, top water plugs, and crank baits. But on this day, as I looked up and down the aisles in the fishing section, the

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New Fly Guy – Solving line twist

I was not very far into my pursuit of smallies this summer when I started to get all sorts of line twist when I was throwing heavy poppers or bigger terrestrials.  There were times when it was so bad that I could see the fly spin like a propeller on the end of the line

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New Fly Guy: One Season = One Leader?

I can’t tell you how much money I spent on the leaders in my first year of fly fishing. Over the winter, I read an article somewhere that shared the following trick with me. It’s simple and addresses the problem of “using up” your leader. As a  New Fly Guy, I knew that I had

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New Fly Guy – Bluegills – gotta love ’em!

Where do people learn to fly fish?  In a class? On the lawn practicing? Or through the school of hard knocks? I’m sure most folks would agree that it ain’t book learning that moves you up the competence curve – it’s applied experience.  But, fly fishing is much harder to learn and master than spin

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My books have hundreds of pictures, GPS coordinates, fishing-focused content and are available in both print and Kindle formats.

Note! If you use the Kindle Reader APP on a phone or tablet, the pictures are in color.

My books have hundreds of pictures, GPS coordinates, fishing-focused content and are available in both print and Kindle formats.

Note! If you use the Kindle Reader APP on a phone or tablet, the pictures are in color.

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