OK, I feel very motivated. As I wrote yesterday, I hit the Farmington in time for the Trico spinner fall. With dozens of fish rising all around me, I just couldn’t buy a bite. Nothing worked, including floating an ant and a beetle. Two trips ago, I did well with a #28 black WD-40. This
Category: Flies and fly tying
Interview: Dan Trela of Trela Custom Rods
If you are fishing a river and no one else is catching except for one angler, who is fishing small dry flies, that likely is Dan Trela. If you are fishing the Swift River and someone is catching fish, chances are that someone is fishing a fly purchased from Dan. He also makes custom fly
Midge Larvae
A reader asked me about the Midge Larva I used during a surprisingly productive day at the Farmington. I had landed over 15 fish on small dries or dry-droppers. I wrote to him via a comment on a blog post about the dropper flies I had used. My Midge Larva is a very simple tie:
Low Water + Farmington River = The Dry-Dropper Set-Up
I fished the Farmington. I didn’t know what to expect with the water at 100 cfs. But, I read online that they might lower the flow to 50 cfs, and so, I thought I’d better hit the river. When I arrived at Spot A, two other anglers were there. One was a spin fisherman,
