Dressing for Winter Fishing
Frosty trees and snowy mountain tops are reminders of what lies ahead as winter approaches North Carolina. The past few days has been a...
Go Green and Save Money on Flies
Everywhere you turn you here about people going green. Incentivized programs exist providing people the opportunity to save money while...
Late October Fishing Report
Finally! Fall temperatures have arrived in Western North Carolina! We have had almost a week now of overnight lows reaching into the...
Delayed Harvest Update
If anyone has seen October, please tell him to show up for work! It has been hotter in the last five weeks than we have been all summer....
Cooler Weather Has Fall Trips Booking Fast
As we begin closing another chapter on the season we call summer, the cooler crisp nights and early mornings have the trout eager to sip...
Remember Where You Started
Fall, 2001. My first fall as a student at WCU, on a whim, a neighbor on the 8th floor of Scott Hall asked me to go fly fishing with him...
Don't Delay, Delayed Harvest Season is on its way
We are less than eight weeks away from the start of the Delayed Harvest season for trout in Western North Carolina. Many anglers skills...
Patagonia Vest Sling Pack, Best of Both Worlds
With the ever evolving world of fly fishing gear, fly fishing packs have changed the way we carry gear. Most of us or at least many of...
Big Flies and Big Fish!
Grandma is ringing the dinner bell and the trout are headed to the table looking for a good meal and we have some good meals for them! ...
How to Tie: Olive Caddis Fly
Our fly tying aficionado, Shannon Messer walks us through the steps in tying a deer hair caddis fly. This is an excellent pattern to fish...
