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Spring Fly Fishing Update – May 8, 2017
SPRING FLY FISHING UPDATE-- MAY 8, 2017 Neil Chamberlin We’ve had some excellent spring fishing out here. I personally started my spring fishing in early February this year and we’ve managed to put some really nice fish in the boat since then. I’ve been fishing both the local rivers and traveling all around our area chasing the best fishing. Locally the Snake, South Fork, Henry’s Fork, Green River, and many of the lakes have been fishing very well. Spring started off as usual...
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Grand Teton Fly Fishing hits St. Brandon’s Atoll!
When great fly fishing opportunities present themselves if at all possible you have to jump on it! This is exactly what happen to me a few months ago when all I was thinking about was skiing more of the insane powder snow that kept coming this past winter. Grand Teton Fly Fishing's long time friend and International fly fishing guru, Jeff Currier emails me on a snowy night in February about a trip of a lifetime. The conditions were right and I had to jump on this amazing journey to fly fis...
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Magic on the Fly
We are often asked to articulate what it is that makes fly fishing so special and it is true, sometimes it is hard to describe the affliction. Here is a short article I wrote for a local Adventure Guide that may help get to the nature of this spell bounding activity... Enjoy the Season! Magic on the Fly- Scott Smith Why “fly fishing” and not just “plain old fishing”? The answer may lie in the art itself, fly-fishing’s opportunity to connect with nature, or just a simple love of w...
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A Fly Fisherman’s Oath by Josh Gallivan
To open up this season's blog posting I wanted to share a short read from one of our guides, Josh Gallivan. I think Josh is one of the more contagious individuals I know. Instead of a hand shake he prefers a giant hug and instead of sitting and watching he prefers doing, generally, like his hugs in giant way. I think many of us can relate to what Josh has to say here and in my opinion he has it right. I saw many of his characteristics in myself just a decade or two ago and even now ...
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Presentation: The Reach Cast
There is no doubt that there are many "secret" tips in the world of fly fishing. These tips are meant to encourage an emerging angler to persist and learn more quickly what took many thousands of anglers before years of positive and negative experience. In my opinion, one tip stands out and on almost every guide trip I have ever done I try and get across at some level the importance of a good reach cast. For beginners just mentioning the possibility of including the mend in the cast gives the...
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Part II – Wet-Fly Presentation
To follow up on our last post about dry fly presentation from a drift boat it is now fitting to go sub-surface and briefly discuss good wet-fly presentation from a well positioned drift boat. To be a great guide in these times you need to have a pretty mean wet fly strategy and again KISS(keep it simple stupid), always! Around our region here in the Tetons and Western Wyoming we can force the dry fly and do fairly well even on the days with not much happening, in fact I know several well know...
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Drift Boat Fly Fishing: Bow Angles
In our last post I made a fair case for several reasons why it is we love drift boat fly fishing. Just as fly rods are finely crafted to perform smoothly with remarkable accuracy, so to are drift boats crafted to execute the presentation of a fly to extreme levels, therefore giving the bow seat angler(BSA) a rare opportunity into fly fishing prowess. After spending hundreds of days and countless hours watching BSA's of all skill levels, as well as through my own personal opportunities castin...
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The Drift Boat Fly Fishing Experience… on the Rapid Rise.
I can easily recall as a youngster, dreaming over issues of Field & Stream and Sports Afield about the art and delicate craft of fly fishing. The visions of wading up clear, cold mountain streams in pursuit of trout made for a solid foundation of what to expect when diving head first into this life long activity. It wasn't until I first ventured West to Yellowstone Country at about age 13 that I picked up on another way to enjoy the sport, the drift boat. In the early 80's, drift boats we...
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Jackson Hole Spring Fly Fishing Report
The official start to Spring is less than a week away and already the annual buzz is in full swing here in Jackson Hole and the Northern Rockies. The 6 week long snow cycle that began on January 29th has, for now, come to an end and local recreation is bursting at the seams. Recent temps have skiers stoked on beautiful afternoon corn snow and if you know where to look, powder. At the same time cyclist and yes, fisherman are scurrying around the valley soaking up the stunning fresh air and war...
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A Twist on Tying the Improved Clinch Knot
Have you ever wondered how your guide can change your fly and get you back fishing so quickly? The answer to this is practice, but with this little trick, you'll be rigging up faster than your fishing buddies! Here are my steps to tying the Improved Clinch Knot with a little twist. First off, these instructions are for a right handed person. Start with the leader or tippet in your left hand, palm up with a short tip of the leader or tippet extending from your closed thumb and inde...
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