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Tiger Trout, White River Arkansas with Gastons Resort

    You know pretty quickly when you are fishing on The White River in Arkansas, and are the only boat on the water, that the conditions are either brutal or you are simply crazy.  I personally li...

Sub Zero Fly Fishing on The White River in Arkansas with Gaston’s

  Your birthday only comes one time a year, and regardless of the weather, some of us want to spend the day on the water.  I had a solid window of time in mid February, and wanted to target big br...

Iowa Driftless Region January 2021 Fly Fishing - North Bear Creek

  After a solid twenty four Zoom Meetings this week, it made a ton of sense to take Friday off, and make a day trip up to The Driftless Region for some peace and quiet, river style.  There’s nothi...

Welcome 2021 - Ringing in the New Year Iowa Driftless Fly Fishing

Brown Trout, Waterloo Creek   Maybe it’s just me, but there’s only one way to welcome in the new year, and it’s by getting out of the house and getting some much needed river therapy.  This year I...

Downtown Missoula Fall Fly Fishing Action, DIY Style

How cool is it to stay in a hotel that you can walk to incredible trout fishing waters and actually catch fish?  That exactly what you have at The Double Tree by Hilton in downtown Missoula.  This...

Fly Fishing The Clark Fork With My Friend Jake, aka Missoulaflyguy

  Let’s be honest, I’m a lucky guy.  One of the most unexpected things that happened to our family in the odd year of 2020 is that our daughter choose to attend college at The University of Montan...

Personal Best Carp on the Fly in October

    When you’re  fishing for smallmouth in October, I suggest bringing a big stick.  Many of you know, I’m an eight weight man when it comes to fishing streamers.  I have no problem pulling in a s...

North Platte River, Wyoming Fly Fishing with Four Seasons

  I’ve been excited for this day for quite some time.  How cool is it to have an opportunity to float the North Platte river on a gorgeous day with my good friend Kevin Hansen of Rod & Rivet a...

Big Laramie, Big Surprises, Wyoming

  Grayling in Wyoming   2020 continues to throw us curve balls.  During my visit to Wyoming, the area sustained a major wildfire named The Mullen Fire.  This one is still burning, and its quite sa...

Little Laramie, Big Fish in Wyoming

  Last week I was fortunate to be invited to join a good friend of mine, Kevin Hansen, owner of our local fly shop in Des Moines on a trip to Wyoming.  Kevin has some connections to a ranch locate...

North Bear Creek, The Driftless Morning Fly Fishing Before Work

  Need to get away?  A friend of mine recently said to me that the best thing about fly fishing is that there are 4-5 things you always need to be thinking about while fly fishing to do it well.  ...

Driftless Region in August Fly Fishing Break From the Real World

  There’s something about being without cell phone coverage, holding a beautiful fly rod in your hand, and landing a few trout that makes the problems of the world melt away. I found a small windo...

Raccoon River Summer Carp on the Fly

  When it’s ninety five degrees and it feels like one hundred and something because of the humidity, it‘s a great day to go out in search of carp on the fly.  The beautiful thing about fly fishing...

Raccoon River Carp on the Fly

Today was a special day because I got out on the river with our daughter, which doesn’t happen very often.  She recently graduated from high school, and is attending The University of Montana in t...

Floating The Big Blackfoot Near Missoula, Montana

  Naturally, on a college visit to Missoula with our daughter, there must be some time allocated for fly fishing.  That was my excuse this time, as if I needed an excuse to test some fly fishing g...

Montana’s Wild Brook Trout

  My family and I had an opportunity to visit Missoula in mid June, this was our first time flying and first time staying in a hotel since mid March.  This is a recent record for me, it’s been 15 ...

Epic Afternoon on Waterloo Creek

  Waterloo Creek, located just outside of Dorchester, IA is one of the most surprising gems in the Iowa Driftless region.  There are several miles of fishable waters.  There is great access due to...

South Pine Creek, Iowa’s Home for Native Brook Trout

  The Driftless region in Iowa is one of the best kept secrets in fly fishing.  The state has a ton of different cold water creeks, and through a well run stocking program by the Iowa Department o...

Late May Smallmouth on the Fly

  Don‘t you just love it when you show up to your fishing location to find a couple of anglers on kayaks already there?  Well, this one had a funny ending.  They were super nice people, gave me a l...

Escape from Quarantine, Iowa Smallmouth Bass on the Fly

  We are so fortunate in central Iowa to have very solid smallmouth bass action so close to the metro.  If you know where to go, you can have an incredible afternoon of fly fishing for smallmouth ...

Quarantine Carp on the Fly

  Sometimes you just need to get out there and toss a fly, I’m pretty sure everyone can relate to that feeling especially these days.  We had a very calm day here in central Iowa, and my family an...

Everything Will Move Forward

  Everyone knows this is a very strange time in the history of our society.  I’ll get to the fly fishing application in a minute. Our family is just like most American families, sheltering in plac...

White River Arkansas Fly Fishing with Gaston's Resort

Rainbow Trout, White River   Two weeks ago, one of my clients called and asked if I could attend and present at a meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas.  Normally this type of request is almost silly, ...

January Driftless Fishing on the Fly - Waterloo Creek

  Click to View YouTube Video   Winter fly fishing can be some of the best fly fishing all year in the driftless area.  There are tons of benefits to fly fishing in the winter.  Less anglers to com...