Jeff Hickman is back on our blog today with a very simple but incredibly important spey fishing tip. Don’t Cast Too Far. For some reason, people equate spey rods to long casts. Sure you can cast a spey rod far but that is not the main advantage of using one. Much of the time if…
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Guest Posts
Permit Fly Presentation – Setting the Hook
It’s time for part four in our five part series from Bruce Chard on presenting flies to permit. At this point you’ve done a good enough job that a permit is interested in your fly…here’s when and how to bury it home. Like everything else associated with permit fishing, this stuff is often not simple!…
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Permit Fly Presentation – Cruising Fish
Last week Bruce Chard told us how to present flies to feeding permit. This week our series on permit fly presentation continues, with some wisdom on what to do when you see cruising fish. Cruising Permit – How to Present a Fly If the fish is cruising, he’s not actively looking for food. The drop…
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Think Like a Scared Shrimp
Yeah, we’re right in the middle of our Bruce Chard permit fly presentation series, but that’s not going to keep us from running a great little nugget of a bonefishing tip from Bruce. Dive Like a Shrimp If you’re a little shrimp on a white sandy flat and you see a bonefish coming along, you…
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Permit Fly Presentation – Feeding Fish
Last week we started a short series of posts featuring Bruce Chard’s incredible knowledge of how to present flies to permit. Today we’re diving deep, and the topic is presenting a fly to a feeding permit. Feeding Permit – Presenting Flies If you come across a feeding permit, recognize that right away. Usually that calls…
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Permit Fly Presentation – Introduction
We’re starting a little series of posts today on presenting flies to permit! Here’s the background. Your fearless editor said to Bruce Chard, Permit Whisperer, the other day, “Hey Bruce, we should do a post on the difference between presenting flies to bonefish and presenting flies to permit.” 45 minutes later the graduate level lecture…
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Bonefishing and Stream Fishing Wrap Up
Today we’re wrapping up Michael Gracie’s 3-part mini-series on bonefishing and trout fishing. Need to catch up? Here’s part 1 and here’s part 2. Thanks for the great insights, Michael! It’s All About the Presentation…I Mean Casting…No, Presentation. Just Cast! “Fly fishing is all about presentation.” – Anonymous, Omnipresent Fly Angler Unfortunately, that wisdom doesn’t…
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More on Bonefishing and Stream Fishing
Last week we started a 3-part series of guest posts by Michael Gracie. The topic is how bonefishing improves your stream fishing, and part one was all about situational awareness. Today the fun continues – read on! Reading is Fundamental – We’re Talking Water, not Penguin Classics You are marching down this creek flat, when…
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How Bonefishing Can Improve Your Day on the Stream
Today we’re kicking off a 3-part series of guest posts from our friend Michael Gracie. He’s the man behind michaelgracie.com, a veteran of FIBFest at Andros South, and a guy who thinks about angling more than your average bear. Like he’s thought about how bonefishing improves your other fishing, and that’s what this series is…
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Louis Cahill’s Camera Rig
We’ve posted a lot of expert rigs on our blog – detailed descriptions of how some of the best anglers in the world set themselves up to chase fish in different parts of the world. In fact, two of the most popular pages on our site are our steelhead rig roundup and our king rig…
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