This post is from contributing author, Pat Burke There were not many good fishing options with the high flows, but I wasn't going to pass up the beautiful weather on Monday. I decided to drive out of town a bit to find more manageable flows and hopefully some...
The majority of the nymphs in my box have beads, and the oxidation of those beads used to be a problem. Over time, some of the shiny flies that left my vise would lose a little of their luster or start to discolor. For a while I thought perhaps it was the quality of...
The sixty-day period allotted by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission for comments on the proposed changes to specially regulated waters designated Delayed Harvest Artificial Lures Only (DHALO) is coming to an end. I'm not going to go into a diatribe here listing...
This post is from contributing author, Pat Burke. Every year as winter winds down, the fishing changes dramatically in our area. In winter, you can basically get by fishing a few confidence patterns most days on the water. Then March happens. It’s not that March is a...
This post is from contributing author, Pat Burke. Fly fishing can be an expensive sport. Most fisherman have thousands of dollars tied up in reels, waders, boots, chest packs, base layers, wading jackets, leaders, tippet, flies, and the list goes on and on. ...
"You can't catch a fish without your fly in the water." Efficiency has become a game for me; it's something I enjoy; it's something I think about when I'm not fishing, and I'm constantly trying to improve on a system that keeps my flies in the water and the downtime...