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| | When I try to trace my lifelong love of trout and rivers, I always end up back at one, brief encounter. I was about nine years old, floating down New Hampshire’s Saco River in a beat-up rowboat, catching nothing. I had made my last cast of the day and began reeling like a madman because I couldn’t wait to head in. But as soon as I lifted the flashing spinner out of the water, a three-inch brook trout appeared behind it—materializing, it seemed, out of thin air. After a valiant leap for a lure that was half its size, the fish disappeared the second it hit the water. Though at the time I didn’t really understand why, I knew that I’d glimpsed something special. And you never forget your first love. ~ Phil Monahan |
| | | | | | Tim Flagler demonstrates his favorite method for tying the standard parachute version.
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| | | | | | This week’s Tying Tuesday features three patterns fished on or near the surface. |
| This year, AMFF and MidCurrent have teamed up to count down the 50 most interesting objects in the museum’s permanent collection, which currently includes more than 25,000 objects in total. |
| The quality of the filmmaking and photography is top-notch. |
| Lodges, outfitters, and guides who fish Canadian waters are hoping that politics don’t get in the way of great fishing. |
| Tom Rosenbauer’s podcast guest this week is country singer JD Clayton who loves to fly fish for smallmouth bass in his native Ozarks. |
| Visit any participating Scientific Anglers dealer and purchase a qualifying Absolute leader or tippet and get another of equal or lesser value for free. sponsored |
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| | | | Q: Is there a secret to mending a fly line? I just can’t seem to get it right. Help!
—Doug Smith, CO (via the Ask MidCurrent form)
A: To understand mending, you first have to understand what trout are looking for. Trout don’t chase their food; instead, they wait in the current for it to come to them. Aquatic insects tend to drift naturally with the current. Anything that skitters or moves unnaturally across the surface raises alarm bells. That’s where the concept of the “dead drift” comes in: the fly must appear to float freely, uninfluenced by the angler’s line, rod, or hand.
But here’s the catch: Your fly is tied to a leader, which is connected to a fly line, all of which lie on or in the water…
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| | BECOMING A BETTER FLY FISHER |
| | Image courtesy of Kubie Brown |
| | | | | | | | Photo by Harold F. Blaisdell from Tap’s Tips: Practical Advice for All Outdoorsmen |
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| | We’ve been coming to this little stream for nearly forty years. We discovered it soon after Dad moved to New Hampshire, and over the years we’ve explored its entire twenty-odd miles. It empties a spring-fed trout pond, meanders through pine-and-hardwood forest, opens up for a couple of miles in a bog, and reenters the forest before it dumps into the lake. We know every pool and run and riffle, every eddy and backwater and hole, and I guess at one time or another we’ve caught trout from all of them. We’ve been skunked plenty of times, too. We’ve packed away a lot of memories here. We’ve always come with the same purpose: to have some time with each other. Sharing a canoe on a quiet woodland trout stream for an afternoon, taking turns paddling and casting, has been our way of staying connected. The fishing is quite secondary, although before today we never considered leaving our fly rods behind…
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