Fall Fishing Tips – Get Aggressive!
This week’s Fly Fishing Tip is courtesy of RiverBum.com and Jake Ricks of Utah Fly Guides. Aggressive behavior in fish, even when it isn’t related to feeding, can still be great for anglers that know how to take advantage. Fall brings out aggression in many fish species especially those that spawn in the fall like brown trout, brook trout, lake trout, splake, some steelhead and salmon, and many hatchery-bred rainbows. In other circumstances and seasons fish turn aggressive for a variety of other reasons. Aggression can occur in response to environmental stresses, as a territorial behavior, and even as a [...]
Categories: Tips & Tactics Tags: fall fishing, fly fishing tips, Jake Ricks, RiverBum.com, Utah Fly Guides
3 Tips How to Simplify Fly Fishing
This week’s Fly Fishing Tip is brought to us by RiverBum.com and Jake Ricks of Utah Fly Guides. My wife has the term “simplify” in somewhat ornate creative vinyl letters stuck to a mirror over the dresser in our bedroom. I think she means something like we should simplify our lives. Or maybe it just looked “cute” and wise in whatever crafty location she purchased it. I like it fine but look at it a little differently. Knowing by hard experience that the shortest route to a fish is a straight line and that the most correct solution to matching [...]
Categories: Tips & Tactics Tags: Fly Fishing How-To, fly fishing tips, Jake Ricks, RiverBum.com
How to Fish the Big Bug Hatches
This Fly Fishing Tip is brought to you by RiverBum.com and Jake Ricks of Utah Fly Guides. Every year at about this time in the Rockies the big bugs come out. This usually means Green Drakes, Stoneflies, Salmon Flies, and occasionally some other big bugs like Brown Drakes. These flies obviously get the attention of the trout in my local rivers, however, they can also present some challenges. Here are a few ideas about how to have a great fishing day when the big bugs come out to play. 1. Be Prepared With Many Patterns Be prepared with several types [...]
Categories: Tips & Tactics Tags: fly fishing, Green Drakes, Jake Ricks, Rocky Mountains, salmonflies
[Weekly Tip] The Secret to Keeping Your Fly Casting on Target
This weeks Fly Fishing Tip is brought to you by RiverBum.com and Jake Ricks of Utah Fly Guides. Stay on Target Nerdy fans of the old Stars Wars may get the reference in this week’s tip title, but whether you do or not, all fly fishers can benefit by remembering to stay on target. Are You Tracking Properly One of the most common flaws among nearly all fly casters, young and old, is that they occasionally stray from proper tracking in their casting. Tracking refers to the path that the tip of the fly rod travels during the casting stroke. [...]
Categories: Tips & Tactics Tags: fly casting, Jake Ricks, Lefty Kreh, RiverBum.com, Tips & Tactics
