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I often have clients want to fish popping bugs exclusively for smallmouth, and when I tell them that the bass are not feeding on top they still insist that they will. When I finally convince them to fish the fly I think will work, and after they land 5-6 bass, the guy says “how did you know that they would not eat a popping bug but would eat this fly”!! Here are a few tricks that the guides use to figure out what fly to fish for bass.

Below are five tips for you to use when you arrive to your favorite spot and can not seem to figure out what to use or what the fish are feeding on.

1. If fish feed under or around the trees only after the wind blows then the fish are feeding on ants or inchworms that are being blown out of the trees. If they are feeding under the trees and there is no wind or when the wind is not blowing they are feeding on flying insects, i.e. beetles or bees.

This is a re-rerun of an article that I wrote last summer. But it is something that we should all adhere to in the summer time.

I have seen several large trout in the last few weeks caught and released only to watch them float by me down river dead as a door nail. Below are five tips you can use to help trout survive the summer.

Well… it’s that time of year when we start having dreams about where we would like to go fishing over the summer. For some it is an easy choice, for others we only get to make a destination trip every four or five years or maybe even once. So here are some of my thoughts that help me make decisions about where to go.

I often see people standing at the airport trying to figure out what they are going to do since there gear did not make it to the final destination, or what to do about their broken rod. So here are some tips to help you get to your destination with all of your gear.