Southern Fly Master

Peak Fishing Vise With Pedestal Base

Awesome vice! https://amzn.to/3z5gq2l The Peak Rotary Vise is designed for optimal tying efficiency and ease of adjustment. Materials (including Stainless Steel, Brass, Tool Steel, and Aircraft Aluminum) are chosen to last a lifetime.Hardened and tempered tool steel jaws hold hooks securely, from size 2/0 (depending on exact hook wire diameter) down to the smallest on the market.The large…

Cold Weather Fly Fishing

You’ve got to get it while you can. Sometimes fly fishers simply have to fish in cold weather because it’s the only chance they get to fish in our favorite waters.

Another great reason is there is less people out on the water. Less people on the water equals more quality fishing. There are less people out disturbing the waters causing the trout or your preferred quarry to run for cover.

My 4…

So we all, especially us fly tiers, have “issues” with carrying too many flies in our packs. Sometimes even leading to frustrations with choosing and having too many flies. What to do?

      Consolidation and organization

Keeping your box organized helps reduce the amount of flies that you have because you’ll know what you have. I keep 10 flies of each type and size. All in one part of the fly…

Spring River Arkansas – What’s Working for Me

If there was 3 flies that I could bring, then the pictured would be it.

Black Woolly Buggers (grandma brownie style) size 6. The water flow is low

at 314 cfm vs the average flow of about 384. Visit the spring River fly fishing site for more info http://springriverarkansas.webs.com. It’s preferred that you use about 7 feet of type 3 rio sink tip with a unweighted fly for best results. The flow is…

Ozark Tailwater’s – The Only Fly You Need

After fishing the Ozark Tailwater’s for more than 20 years, a few things finally click and the development of successful flies become apparent. These flies have been provided to me over the years by countless and unnamed guides. There is also one fly, that if I had only one for the Ozark Mountains, it would be the sow bug.

There are so many variations of this fly, it sometimes can be mind…

Exploring Dry Fly Midge Fishing in Arkansas Tail Waters

Tailwater fishing can be both rewarding and challenging. It also means that when you’re in Arkansas, dry fly fishing can be rare. Generally speaking, midges, caddis and blue wing olive hatches are actually very common in Arkansas. Knowing how to exploit these hatches can be very rewarding but also very challenging.

Parachute Adams Midge Emerger

I’ve talked generally in the past about midge cycles…

Some consider midge fishing the extreme of our fly fishing sport. With size 18 midges in either dry, nymphs are larval patterns being probably of the largest sized flies, it’s easy to understand why. Normal sized flies in the midge fishing arena could be in the size 22 to 24 range. Some guys and gals even toss size 32! Anglers are finding that understanding how to fish these tiny insects at times…

Fly Fishing for Crappie

Best Fly Fishing For Crappie Techniques

~1-1/2# crappie taken by a size 6 dragon fly nymph

Fly fishing is one of the most fun methods with your clothes on techniques when crappie fishing in our Southern waters. When the crappie move shallow during the spawning season, fly fishing can also become the most efficient way to catch crappie as well. Fly fisherman can employ several techniques as…