This week, our focus is on North Carolina, where anglers can pursue largemouth bass within their native range every day of the year. We recently caught up with EJ Stern, owner/operator of Raleigh Fly Fishing Guide Service, who focuses mainly on . . .
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Podcast: Late-Fall and Winter Trout Fishing, with Sav Sankaran
This week, my guest is Sav Sankaran, fishing manager at the Orvis store in Asheville, North Carolina. The subject is late-fall and winter trout fishing in the Southeast, and although Sav talks about his rivers specifically, there are . . .
Read MorePodcast: Expert Tips on Small-Stream Fly Fishing in California and North Carolina
This week, we continue our exploration of small streams with Brown Hobson of Asheville, North Carolina and Brian Slusser of Truckee, California. Both are experienced guides and love small stream fishing. Even if you don’t . . .
Read MoreTop 10 Winter Flies for Western North Carolina and East Tennessee
Written by: Brown Hobson, Brown Trout Fly Fishing

This winter rainbow came from the Wautauga River.
Photo courtesy Brown Hobson
Winter fishing in the Southeast isn’t what it is in the rest of the country. We are blessed with average lows in the high 20s and average highs in the upper 40s. That still puts average water. . .
Read MorePro Tips: Catch More False Albacore with Topwater Flies
Written by: Capt. Gordon Churchill

The author shows off a gorgeous little tunny, which ate a Crease Fly.
Photos courtesy Capt. Gordon Churchill
If you’re a fly fisherman, then you love seeing fish eat your flies, like when you’re casting dry flies for trout or poppers for bass. And sight-fishing for bonefish is considered one of the more exciting . . .
Read MoreVideo: “A Trip into the Wild” of North Carolina

Here’s a cool film about a float trip down the French Broad River in North Carolina, targeting aggressive smallmouth bass on topwater flies. One of the anglers is DUN Magazine‘s Jen . . .
Read MoreThe Keys to Winter Redfishing in North Carolina
Written by: Gordon Churchill

Emerson proudly shows off a winter redfish landed by his dad, Chris.
Photos by Gordon Churchill
My iPhone weather app said it was 30 degrees when I left the house. I was meeting Chris Ellis and his seven-year-old son, Emerson, in an out-of-the-way North Carolina town near an out-of-the . . .
Read MorePhotos: Sydney’s Green River Brook Trout

You’d have a big smile, too, if you’d landed this beauty.
Photos by Brian Housinger
Thirteen-year-old Sydney Housinger sent us these great photos via Instagram because she was so excited by her catch. Fishing with her dad last week on the Green River–south of Asheville, . . .
Read MorePhotos: False Albacore and More Off North Carolina
Written by: Connor Tapscott

These little rockets will get you into your backing in seconds.
Photos by Connor Tapscott
I clenched the salty, cork handle of my rod anxiously as we sped off toward the sight of splashing on the horizon. The water bubbled with small fish being pushed toward the ocean’s surface and . . .
Read MoreVideo: “Jewel of the Smokies” Trailer #1

Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I love nothing more than chasing native brook trout in the mountain streams of the Green Mountains of Vermont near Orvis HQ. Here’s a beautiful . . .
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