April’s Fly of the Month Club is brought to you by Dan Wells. I wanted to start by saying I consider myself an “adaptive” fly tier not an “innovator”. All of the flies I have created that are “new” are all from blending together elements of existing patterns that I have learned from “innovative” fly […]
Read more
Can you feel it? It feels like it’s getting to be striper time. Let’s go catch some. Folks are split on whether or not this mild winter will drastically affect the migration of our striped friends. My thoughts? I don’t think we’ll be getting anything crazy like migratory fish the first week in April, but […]
Read more
In this episode, I sit down with Dan Wells (@canalflyguy). Dan gives an absolute masterclass on finding big bass at night. We talk fly and spin presentations, tidal and moon stage, and have lots of fun bait discussion. If you listen to this and use the methods Dan outlines here, you will catch more stripers. […]
Read more
I had no idea what a ‘take’ was until I fooled my first striped bass on the fly. Sure, before that moment, I’d caught plenty of fish on a plug or a softbait and we can all agree that it’s a great feeling. Tough to beat a smashed plug on top and a nice hookset […]
Read more