What Fly-Fishing Gear Do I Need for Streamer Fishing? The patterns and techniques presented here are all compatible with a 9-foot, 5- or 6-weight fly rod and reel , which are standard sizes for ...

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There are more than 50 pages of streamer pictures and streamer patterns, essential information for anyone looking to tie streamer flies. Of course, I wondered how my favorite streamers compared to ...

The classic of these would have to be the Colonel Bates streamer, which I would regard as her second most popular pattern. Robert Bates Jr. was a personal friend.

Filter through preselected colors or flies to see what garners the most response. Focus your selection on flies of the same tone, color or style. Once you decipher the color they want, give them ...

Reaction Strikes. Sometimes, swinging a streamer will provoke a strike from a fish that wasn’t even focused on feeding. Brown trout are highly territorial – if you swing a large fly through ...

LIVINGSTON — There's no better time to be out on a river in Montana than autumn — even this year, when there isn't quite so much river out there. Streamer time has just begun for fly fishermen ...

BASALT – Ask any local fly-fishing guide what time of year is their favorite fishing season and the majority of responses will favor fall. There are several reasons for this. For starters, the ...

You can feel it. The air is crisp. Leaves are dancing in countless colors of ochre. The river seems to swell in the yellow light reflected from autumn-cloaked hillsides. Time to get serious about ...

The Nine-Three was born in May 1949, in the Belgrade Lakes region. “My brother Emile and Dr. Herbert Sanborn stayed up half the night designing the fly,” the late Maine outdoors writer (and longtime ...

The patterns and techniques presented here are all compatible with a 9-foot, 5- or 6-weight fly rod and reel, which are standard sizes for most trout pursuits.If you already fish dry flies and ...