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  • Mission Up The Umpherville River Pt 1
    While visiting Wollaston lake in Northern Canada, Jim Sammons, Jeff Goudreau and Ken Whiting paddle, drag and slog their way up the Umpherville River to discover untouched pike, grayling and walleye fishing.
  • Flytying - Floating Menace
    When trout are repeatedly rising for flies, My "Floating Menace" is the pattern to try. Tied parachute style, this fly is absolutely deadly when fish are feeding on insects trapped in the surface. The thing that sets parachute flies apart is the way the hackle is tied around a wing post, which sits upright at 90 degrees to the hook shank. ...FISH-ON!
  • Fly tying - Fluttering Mayfly
    This is the "fluttering" type of Mayfly. It is tied just contrary to a conventional fly; that is, the head of the fly starts at the rear of the hook instead of at the front of the hook. Tying a fly in this manner gives it a fluttering erratic action when slowly retrieved through the water. ... FISH-ON!
  • Winter Rainbow Trout
    Winter Rainbow Trout from Tennessee's Cumberland Mountain Park in Crossville.
  • Great Hook Removal Technique
    Chris Coufal embeds a treble hook deep in his hand, which provided Chad Hoover with a great opportunity to demonstrate a fantastic and reliable hook removal technique.
  • Salar Fly Fishing
    Filmed in September of 2011
  • Kyle's Big Rainbow Trout
    Nice Day out on the water!
  • Kyle's Big Rainbow Trout
    Nice Day out on the water!
  • Trying a Dry Fly
    I thought I would try out a dry fly in a good spot, you can,t get much more fun then this...FISH-ON! Cookster
  • Decent Brown in my local creek
    I just love my local creek. I would pass on most fishing trips just to be able to be on the water in 15 minutes. This is shot at Boulder Creek in Colorado, and while my cinematography skills are lacking there is still some cool shots in here. Next time I will remember to angle it down more.

Latest Fly Fishing Tips

Finding Your Playground

The American Heritage Dictionary defines Playground as: A field or sphere of unrestricted pleasurable activity. Have you found your Playground? A place where you can go for a day trip, spend a little gas money to get there, catch nice fish and not be harassed by the crowds. My playground is about 20 miles from my front door and a one mile hike. It has a substantial wild trout population and

How to tie a Spider fly!

Sitting at my tying bench I was inspired to tie something a little different.  I came across a spider pattern in one of my books and modified it so that it was easier to tie and was more fishable than the original. Take a curved scud hook (size 12) and place it in your vice. Take 6/0 white tying thread and dress your hook. Take some white deer hair (not bucktail) and tie it on top of

Getting Started on Fly-Fishing for Smallmouth Bass

Fly-fishing for smallmouth bass can be one of the greatest challenges in freshwater fishing, and can offer some of the greatest rewards.

Jeff Weltz's Fraser Valley Fishing Column for Dec. 26th to Jan 2nd

Jeff Weltz drops some knowledge on steelhead flies, talking about some of the classic patterns that take these majestic fish.

Time to Make Those Flies

 With winter here, its time to build up your fly-boxs for the next season which hopefully gets here soon.     So here are a couple of nymph flies to start with.