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Fishing methods, species, ways to catch more fish - Learn fly casting - Become a better fly caster

The pike that stared

Memories: This was one of those fish that staid glued to my inner eye for a long time. The largest pike I ever caught gave up a very good and pretty harrowing fight.
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School of roach

Memories: I'm not picky when it comes to fishing and any day I can catch 12-15 fish is a good day - even when the fish are humble roach.
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My first salty pike

Memories: I love pike fishing with a fly rod, and my first encounter with pike in the salt made a lasting impression.
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Microjig nymphs
and small streams

Jigging: One of the ways to fish small, fast, rocky streams is Czech nymphing with microjigs.
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Of lead and chrome

Memories: One was lead colored and slim, one was bright chrome and in perfect condition, bot both these south Swedish sea trout were memorable.
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King of the moonfish

Memories: Moonfish are odd but fascinating creatures, and I have the honor of having been called king of the moonfish during a family trip to Florida.
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Mangrove tarpon

Memories: I was never really taken by tarpon fishing. I've done it a few times and caught a few tarpon, but never felt the thrill that I see people get from fishing for these fish.
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Summit opener

Memories: This was one of those days where things just worked out, and I took advantage of it and behaved slightly out of order.
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Jewel of the Rockies

Memories: Little jewels of the mountains, greenback cutthroats cruising along the shore, easily visible from the rocks and eager to take almost anything offered.
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My float tube
is a sputnik

Memories: I enter the water... I enter another universe. My tube is a sputnik suspended in the space above a lunar surface of sand and stone. I'm the astronaut. The clear water is my vaccum. I turn on my mental time lock and make the first cast.
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The man with
the silver waders

Memories: This is about a steelhead - a sea run rainbow trout. We don't have wild rainbow trout here, so all rainbows we catch are escaped hatchery or sea farm fish. And most are butt ugly. But not this one.
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My most recent
decent fish

Memories: Oddly enough the first fish I thought of when I started writing this series was my most recent decent coastal sea trout, which I'm ashamed to say was caught more than four years ago.
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I remember
that fish

Memories: In spite of having caught quite a few fish in my life, some stand out. Not the biggest, not the most spectacular, not the most difficult... just some...
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Selectivity

Review: A book about fishing for fussy trout, steelhead and salmon, which systematically covers theory, practical fishing methods and fly patterns.
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Takes
South African Korrie Broos has developed this "Chart of takes" to classify the takes and different methods to employ to fish for the takes or to trigger the take.

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Dorado
Locally it is known as "el tigre de los rios", the tiger of the rivers, and Argentina's famed Dorado is a popular and sought after gamefish.

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Kayak fly-fishing - the sequel
I have been fishing in the ocean from a kayak before, but these days my motivation is not mobility but rather immobility and my needs are different.

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Biking and Fly Fishing
Having a hard time finding new fishing locations is a common complaint. How about using your bike to go new places? Mike Hogue introduces you to the combination of biking and fishing.

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Rising Salar Q&A
The DVD Rising Salar takes a different approach to doing a fishing video and we have talked the the three guys behind it.

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Merging two fly lines
Splicing lines together using thread and glue can be replaced by another method if you are using coated lines. See how easy it is to weld lines togeteher using shrink tubes and a heater.

All articles from this section...

·10 rules for C&R
·10 ways
·10 Ways to Fish Green
·2500 sea trout!
·A Backyard in Nowhere Q&A
·A smart spooler
·Asp Parade
·Aux Outardes River Pike
·Balance beam
·Baskets, trays, buckets
·Beginner's Buzzer
·Biking and Fly Fishing
·Biological Time
·Bonefish biology
·Bonefish Theme
·Bonefishing the Flats
·Boot Blues
·Braided sleeve and silicone tubing
·Break a rod
·Bronze Ides
·Bubble float
·C&R of salmon
·Capt. Mel's Tube Knot
·Car rod holders
·Carp on the Fly
·Catch & Release
·Catch&Release
·Chasing Gold
·Chinook in the salt
·Christmas gifts
·Chubby Fishing
·Chuck-n-Duck
·Cod on a flyrod
·Common casting errors
·Czech Nymphing
·Dicentrarchus labrax
·Do's and dont's
·Don't freeze
·Don't wade, you idiot!
·Dorado
·Driving podcast
·End of the rainbow
·February Red
·Fernández Fly-Fishing for Bonefish
·First setup
·Fish safely
·Fishing - Kayak flyfishing
·Fishing a bubble
·Fishing the Muddler Minnow
·Fly fishing leaders and tippets
·Fly Fishing with Solo Canoes
·Fly line anatomy
·Fly Line Blues
·Fly Reel Blues
·Flyfishing for Perch
·Flyline Maintenance 101
·FlyOn tube fly system
·Four stream rods

·Furled leaders DIY
·Going deep
·Hatch Q&A
·Henning's Setup
·How to act right
·How to fish with more than one fly
·How to look good
·I remember that fish
·Ice cold tubing
·Illustrated knot table
·Improving fly line control
·In search of Dinosaurs
·Interview with a trout
·Itu's Bones Q&A
·Jacket Blues
·Jewel of the Rockies
·Joining loops
·Juro Mukai's shooting head setup
·Kayak fly-fishing - the sequel
·Kayak flyfishing
·King of the moonfish
·Knots and ©
·Knots for the fly fisherman
·Lake Vintter
·Large loop connection
·LeaderCalc2007
·Leaders&Tippets
·Line care
·Loops
·Making a loop directly on a fly line
·Making a wading staff
·Making loops
·Mangrove tarpon
·Measure tape II
·Measuring the temperature
·Meet the Booby Fly
·Merging two fly lines
·Microjig nymphs and small streams
·Midwest Hatches
·Montana Trout
·My first salty pike
·My float tube is a sputnik
·My most recent decent fish
·My summer salmon fishing
·Never fish with a broken hook!
·New York Salmon fishing
·O'io Boy'o!
·Of lead and chrome
·Old Hickory
·On bite tippets for pike flies - Global FlyFisher
·Our first mullets
·Packing
·Patagonian salmonids
·Pike Landing
·Portrait of a fishing dog
·Production leaders
·QwikCalc
·Reel care

·Right hand or left hand?
·Rising Salar Q&A
·Rising Tide
·Rod care
·Safety and preparation
·Saved soles
·School of roach
·Sea Trout Gear
·Selecting a kayak
·Selectivity
·Sharks!
·Shooting head talk
·Shooting heads
·Shooting lines
·Sid’s Fin Hack
·Skunked
·Slinkies
·Smallmouth Jump
·Spring preparation
·Stepping into the Stream Q&A
·Stillwater Fishing
·Strike Indicator Scientology
·Stripers on the flats
·Summit opener
·Takes
·Tapâm Q&A
·The Bad Beginning
·The bag trick
·The Fish & The Fly Q&A
·The ghost and I
·The landing net for the coast
·The man with the silver waders
·The measure tape
·The only knot
·The Overlooked Asset
·The pike that stared
·The strike
·Tigerfish from my Verandah
·Tom's Line Winder
·Tom's reel
·Trout beads
·Twined or furled leaders
·Uncharted Waters Q&A
·Using the loop system
·Weird Ways
·Welding your loops
·What is a switch rod?
·What is fly-fishing?
·When lightning strikes
·Where to fish
·Wind considerations
·Windy casting
·Winter fishing
·Yellow Fever
·Your best indicators!
·ZipCast

Reports
·The pike that stared
·School of roach
·My first salty pike
·Of lead and chrome
·King of the moonfish
·Mangrove tarpon
·Summit opener
·Jewel of the Rockies
·My float tube is a sputnik
·The man with the silver waders
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Reviews
·Pacific Salmon Flies
·Saltwater Flies
·Das große Trockenfliegen-
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·Selectivity
·Steelhead Dreams
·Fly-Fishing's Final Frontier
·Fishing in Grayling Paradise
·Fish Flies I and II
·Flyfishing for Coarse Fish
·Take the F...ing Fly
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Patterns
·Squid Plus Three
·Microjig nymphs and small streams
·Vintage Streamers
·Braid a worm
·Mart's Peccary Paraloop Emerger
·OSA Nymph
·Sea Trout Munker
·The Munker
·Sydney Opera Mouse
·Foam Caterpillars
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