Tennessee’s Morgan Clinches Angler Of The Year Title, $100,000DAYTON, Tenn. (June 30, 2013) – Rookie pro Casey Martin of New Hope, Ala., brought the biggest stringer of the tournament to the scales…
Earlier this year I spent a week in the Amazon rainforest arranging a trip through Sweetwater Travel, longtime friends in the trade, to secure eight spaces in a fly-fishing-only lodge located 300…
There must be something about the last name 'Martin' that equates to tournament bass fishing prowess. Roland Martin, Tommy Martin, Scott Martin and at the FLW Tour event on Lake Chickamauga out of…
A fly-tying kit is a good way for a beginner to get started.
If you have ever looked into learning to tie your own flies for fishing you probably have become disillusioned by the sheer number of…
If you want to catch heavyweight fish in freshwater, you need to take up flathead catfishing. Trophy-size fish are usually caught after dark because that’s when the big flatheads feed. Shallow…
Casey Martin Takes the Lead at Chickamauga FLW Tour Tournament, Morgan is FLW Angler of the Year!
Even though there was a 2-hour delay to the start of the tournament Saturday morning due to fog, the…
I've been blessed to fish for trout with dry flies on some of the top waters in the country, from the Bow River in Alberta to the Big Horn in Montana, from the Beaverkill in New York to the Hiwassee…
Clear water comes with its own set of rules. Fish can be finicky, spook easily or drop down deep. Learning to adapt is a key concept that can greatly increase fishing success during these times — and…
Except for a few specific dry patterns when the need arises, thin bodied, lightly hackled darker-colored patterns like the x-caddis, or elk hair caddis are used most of the time
Every serious fly…
Many of the free flowing streams of the southern Missouri Ozarks contain a small fish which resembles the northern pike. The chain pickerel is a diminutive cousin of the much larger northern species…
One of my most memorable fishing trips took place on a little oxbow lake in the backcountry of eastern Arkansas. Two friends, Lewis Peeler and Jack Bissell, had joined me for a day of bream fishing.…
If weather conditions are keeping you off your favorite rivers, there always is a second option to catching fish with flies. Although most of the fun with fly fishing is in the casting and…
