About 90 percent of the media you see about fly fishing in Arkansas involves a huge dam and giant tailwater trout. Here’s a great, 11½-minute video that focuses on the “authentic Ozark . . .
Read MoreVideo: “Buffalo Brothers” in the Ozarks
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Pro Tips: Support Your Bass—Stop the Lip Grip!
Rob Woodruff of Woodruff Guide Service shows how to properly support a bass’s body.
Photo by Jenny Mayrell-Woodruff
Fly fishers have spent a lot of time over the past couple of years trying to promote the #Keepemwet ethic as a way to ensure the highest survival rates from catch-and-release. . .
Read MoreVideo: The Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing, Episode II –
Bass on a Fly
Largemouths on a fly are a blast.
Here’s the second episode of “The Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing” to be published on Youtube. (We told you about Episode I and the series last week.) In Episode II, Tom Rosenbauer focuses on. . .
Read MoreHawk Lake Lodge, Day Three: Teeth and Mouths
After two days of fantastic smallmouth fishing at Hawk Lake Lodge, we decided to head for a smaller lake known for its great pike population. Sandy and I once again teamed up with guide Jeff Blum for a very short boat ride, followed by a hike to . . .
Read MoreHawk Lake Lodge, Day Two: The Mouse that Roared
Our second morning at Ontario’s Hawk Lake Lodge dawned bright and warm–it looked to be a carbon copy of the previous day–and we decided to fish Paddy Lake for smallmouths. One of the 19 lakes that the lodge has access to, Paddy is just a . . .
Read MoreHawk Lake Lodge, Day One: All Fishes Great and Small(mouth)
Last winter, I got a call from my friend Ted Putnam, owner of Hawk Lake Lodge, who invited me to come up and explore his system of lakes known for their trophy smallmouth bass, northern pike, and walleyes. At the time, neither of us knew . . .
Read MoreVideo: Top 5 Warmwater Flies for June 2019
In this month’s “Top 5” video from Trouts Fly Fishing in Denver, General Manager Rick Mikesell offers his favorite patterns for chasing largemouth and smallmouth bass in late spring and early summer. It’s mostly a subsurface game in much of the . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: Topwater Techniques for Smallmouth Bass
Topwater season isn’t that far off, and the folks at The New Fly Fisher offer some tips for fishing poppers for smallmouths. Host Colin McKeown visited Hawk Lake Lodge in Ontario and tried. . .
Read MoreSpring Bonanza on Lake Powell
Nestled between the Arizona and Utah boaders, Lake Powell is the country’s second-largest man-made reservoir, behind Lake Mead. It was created by the Glen Canyon Dam–yes, the same dam responsible for such famous trout spots as Horseshoe Bend . . .
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. . .
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