I spend a lot time during the season casting bass poppers and sliders from the family canoe. There’s definitely a way to do it right, and Colin McKeown from The New Fly Fisher offers. . .
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Classic Podcast: Finding and Catching Stream Smallmouth Bass with Paul Caldwell
There are tricks of the trade if you want to land more river smallies.
Photo by Drew Price Fly Fishing
This week’s podcast features smallmouth expert Paul Caldwell with tips on finding and catching stream smallmouths on a fly rod. Paul is a specialist in the Outfitter area of our Roanoke. . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Fly-Fish for Bass
Legendary angler Jeff Currier offers some of his top tips for bass fishing with a fly rod. From choosing the right gear to casting big flies to making sure you land the fish you hook, Jeff’s advice is rock-solid. He may be a world-traveling angling celebrity now, . . .
Read MorePro Tips: How to Catch Smallmouths Year-Round
Contrary to popular belief, fly anglers can catch smallmouth bass year-round, even during winter. While these hardy gamefish are known for tolerating higher temperatures than trout, they also tolerate cold water fairly well, and will still feed when it’s just . . .
Read MorePro Tips: 5 Keys to Early-Season Smallmouth Success
Written by: Kip Vieth, Wildwood Float Trips
The author’s son, Truman, with a fine early-season bronzeback.
Photo by Kip Vieth
Winter is the time to dream of warm summer days spent drifting down Midwestern rivers and watching the country’s largest smallmouth bass attack poppers. Those are great images to. . .
Read MoreVideo: “Desert Drift” Trailer by Todd Moen
Here’s a killer video from Todd Moen, of Catch Magazine, featuring angler Jennifer Mitchell casting poppers on “a top-secret bass-filled, desert ditch loaded with hungry. . .
Read MorePro Tips: 3 Essential Flies for Smallmouth Bass
A mentor of mine once told me to always be prepared to attack the water column in three distinct areas—surface, sub-surface, and bottom—no matter how the water initially reads or presents itself. Fish are inevitably going to be feeding in one of those . . .
Read MorePodcast: Modern Smallmouth Secrets, with Tim Landwehr
This week, my guest is Tim Landwehr, of Tight Lines Fly Fishing Company, in De Pere, Wisconsin. Tim has decades of experience guiding for smallmouth bass and is co-author of the book Smallmouth: Modern Fly Fishing Methods, Tactics, and . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Yellow Meanie
Paul J. Beel, an Indiana native who runs the Franken Fly fly-tying website, is an avid smallmouth-bass fisherman, and he created the Yellow Meanie to mimic a local baitfish. Of the pattern, he says, “[It]isn’t a pretty fly, but it is my go-to for smallmouth. . . .
Read MoreVideo: Top 5 Streamers for Smallmouth Bass
Our friend Colin McKeown of The New Fly Fisher and his colleagues spend a lot time chasing big . . .
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