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For most fly fishermen, the fly rod goes into storage after about mid-November. But there are incredible fishing opportunities to be had all year round.
Hopefully, this series about the Blue Winged Olives has inspired you to get out and enjoy the wonderous outdoors. One of my favorite things about winter fly fishing is the lack […]
A Blue-Winged Olive hatch can be one of the most frustrating you will ever fish. (Believe me, I know). In the early part of the year, the flies required are tiny, the weather is lousy and the water is cold. But the fish are big and active, so that makes up for all faults.
There are three […]
Finding a Blue-Winged Olive hatch in the winter is usually a simple matter. Blue-Winged Olives tend to hatch in earnest from mid-January on, so the odds of finding the insects on the water are in your favor.
That being said, don’t expect to find a fantastic hatch every day during the winter. In fact, be ready to find nothing more than […]
Winter is a quiet time for a river, compared to the other seasons. The water is cold, the fish are slow, and the hatches are all but nonexistent. Blue-Winged Olives can add action to any slow day. The insects provide some of the most consistent and active hatches during the winter season.
The best winter/early spring Blue-Winged Olive hatches […]
Continuing our series on BWO strategies….
One of the best tips my fishing mentor gave me several years ago, after being frustrated chasing Tricos and Pseudos on the Missouri, was to learn to fish the backeddies well.
Think about it - backeddies are like a rotating buffet table for trout, circulating all sorts of interesting bugs around […]
Continuing our series on BWO strategies….
Don’t put off downsizing that tippet and fly - we were on the Firehole a couple of weeks ago and casting small BWOs (20) to finicky, active risers, and not having much success. My drifts were pretty clean, the flies appropriate (emergers and later duns), but it just wouldn’t work.
I […]
Don’t let good weather discourage you - we all think of the cool, cloudy, overcast days as BWO days, and we’re all very happy there are few of these days on tap….
We’ve had a couple of days in the Park lately on the Firehole and Madison where decent BWOs were coming off in the sun […]
Continuing our series on BWO strategies….
Of course the drying dun, trapped on the surface with wings too wet to fly, is also an easy and highly visible target to the fish.
Again, lots of good patterns here - we favor the Sparkle Dun, Parachute Baetis (my old eyes really can see this one better), and the […]
Continuing our series on BWO strategies….
Emergers as a whole are probably critically underutilized by many fly fishermen, and BWO emergers can be a very productive tool as you face the hatch rolling along on the river.
BWO are smallish bugs, even for most mayflies, and they often struggle mightily to just break through the surface film, […]
Turning to BWO strategies….
What about your best strategies for fishing BWOs?
Though most of us would rather fish dry flies, as with almost all aquatic insects nymphing with a Pheasant Tail or a Gold Ribbed Hares Ear will likely be productive, if they’re the right size - think 16-20 pending the water.
The most productive waters are […]
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