By Tim Romano & Kirk Deeter

By Al Keller

Just won the Professional Tarpon Tournament Series (PTTS) in Boca Grande on Sunday! The fish was 144lbs.

I had the winning fish last Sunday on for about an hour and a 15' hammerhead chased it down in the last couple of minutes and ate it. Check out the photo below. You can see more pics on this website.

I am in Fernandina Beach now for the FLW Redfish event. Fishing-wise, it’s prime time for tarpon now, which should last for several more weeks, especially in the 10,000 Islands. Wind can make sightfishing tricky, so getting an early start and working falling tides is the key. Staple tarpon patterns, like tarpon bunnies and so forth, are the ticket. Make a good cast and retrieve, and they will eat.

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By Matt McCulloch

Ling cod action remains spotty but some nice ones are being taken on live flounders and pogies. These critters love to hide in the structure, (e.g., jetties, wrecks, and rocks). Work these structures in 15-50ft of water.

Sea-run cutthroats: Action is good. Fish the outgoing tides, casting Decievers, candlefish, and other bait fish patterns. Poppers have been taking some nice fish as well.

Salmon season is opening! [ Read Full Post ]

By Tim Romano & Kirk Deeter

By Mat Wagner

It’s going off in Wisconsin now … caddis hatches (tan) are producing in the mornings; sulphurs midday, and more caddis, craneflies and midges by evening. Swinging nymphs in the riffles is especially effective – be sure to try orange, sulphur-looking patterns. And woolly buggers are also doing the job. Timber Coulee and the West Fork of the Kickapoo are both smoking. Approach fish with stealth, on the Kickapoo, the station report at LaFarge is 2.73 CFS. [ Read Full Post ]

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By Michael Caranci

The trout fishing in Northern California has been great all spring and into these early parts of summer. We had such a dry winter, and such low snowpack this year, that water conditions on all of our rivers are ideal right now, and there have been some great hatches: salmonflies and golden stoneflies on Hat Creek, the McCloud, the Upper Sacramento, and the Pit River, the Green Drakes just started coming off on Hat Creek, and the PMD spinnerfall on Fall River has been epic. Of course, the Lower Sacramento is almost always a sure bet with nymphs out of drift boats all day long, but the evening dry fly fishing is starting to pick up for the summer, too. Fish everywhere seem hungry and larger than average.

Check out this pic taken on Hat Creek recently; the fish ate a salmonfly dry.

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By Terry Gunn

All the Lees Ferry Angler guides agree: This spring provided the best and most consistent fishing that we have seen on the river since 1999. The trout are in great shape, strong and eager to eat … at least most days. The fishing is not as "easy" as it was in 1999, as a matter of fact; I would call the current fishing conditions technical. But if you know where the fish are and can make the cast and the perfect drift, and use the right fly you just might hook the strongest trout of your life. (A Lees Ferry Anglers guide can help you with the above.)

The water flow is going to change in June and this will change our approach to fishing. Most likely the midge fishing will be finished until we see lower water flows. Our focus will be shifting to drifting out of the boat and wading only in lower water flows. July will bring Cicadas and the best dry fly fishing of the year. Our cicada fishing rivals that of any other river in the country and happens most years. The summer drift fishing is often the best and... [ Read Full Post ]

By Tim Romano & Kirk Deeter

... Is Often No More Than A "BB"

I have never met an angler who doesn’t like or respect Pat Dorsey. For those of you who do not know Pat, he is, hands down, the “hot stick” guide on the trout rivers closest to Denver, namely the highly technical Cheesman Canyon section of the South Platte River, the “Dream Stream” section of the Platte (up in South Park), the Williams Fork of the Colorado (near Kremmling), and pretty much anywhere else he chooses to guide. He literally wrote the book on fly fishing the South Platte.

The fact that Pat is almost uniformly recognized as the best guide in one of the busiest trout fishing regions in America is tall praise. But despite all of that, he remains humble, hard working, and amazingly open with his “bag of tricks.” The most important lesson he ever shared came on a notoriously crowded day near Deckers – one of those days when conditions were challenging, the fish were stubborn, and the place was packed with so many anglers, we simply didn’t have the option of bouncing from one run to the next.... [ Read Full Post ]