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Quite a few people have found fishing difficult during the lighter caddis hatches.  Visibly rising fish that reject or ignore your great dry fly pattern.  What our head guide Pete has done with great success is to tie a soft hackle on about 18 inches below a dry fly.  I used that...

We believe that too much emphasis is put on the larger things in fly fishing.  Catching big numbers of fish, new fly rods, 20 inch fish etc.  So we will be celebrating on this blog, not the next big thing in fly fishing, but the next little thing.    These will be the little...

I had a great day yesterday.  Not in fish numbers, not necessarily in fish size.   My client told me on the phone that he wanted to fish dry flies.  My gut reaction was fear.  Fear that somebody wanted to fish dries through a bright sunny day and walk miles blind...

For those who have fished with me, they know that more often than not I head to the water equipped with a sculpin pattern and a mini sink tip.  However this season has seen an about face in my angling.  The mornings before and evenings after the shop is open have been more than...

At least according to my fly fishing calendar, spring has come to the Coulees.   The past couple of days we have seen hatches of things other than midges.  Mayflies, stoneflies, caddis, they are all starting to appear and the fish are responding.   Instead of the splashy...

Just a quick heads up, we will be opening at 7 AM 7 days a week starting tomorrow April 2nd.   We will also be closed for Easter Sunday, Sunday April 4th. We have started to see spring stoneflies (brown and olive size 12), black caddis, and midges hatching daily.  Water temps are...