This is part three of the New York regional series. Click here to read about session one, and here for session two. Butternut Creek was my most frustrating session of the competition. I had fished it before but I could not remember having ever fished the beat I was on, beat three. It was […]
This is part two of the New York Regional recap series. To read about session one, click here. Lower Nine Mile was a hit or miss venue. We walked the beats in practice and all agreed they got significantly worse as they went downstream. Beats one and two were well structured, but the water […]
This past weekend I competed in a one day mini competition on Nine Mile Creek in central New York. It was a fun competition with a lot of good anglers and a lot of fish, so I wanted to do a little summary of how it went and what I did to catch fish. I […]
In a full day of fishing, I usually end up changing my tippet out a lot. Depending on the day and how I’m fishing, I sometimes tie a new tippet section to the leader twenty or thirty times if I’m switching between a number of tactics. There are currently a few really popular methods […]
You know when you’re on the water trying to place a cast right up the edge of a seam, and the fly keeps kicking to one side? No matter what you do the fly keeps missing the target, by a few inches or even feet. There are a lot of things that can throw your […]
Over the last few years I have gotten to fish with hundreds of different anglers. Whether I’m out with a beginner or a world champion, I try to learn something from each one. There are plenty of differences between each angler’s style and equipment. I did, however, notice one thing in common among those who […]
Hello everyone! Im excited to announce that Fringe fly fishing is officially up and running, and welcome everyone to the site. I am going to try and get the ball rolling by putting up a post every couple weeks or so. I already have some good stuff written, but its taken me a while to […]