Its been a wet mess the past week. I have had to cancel and reschedule musky trips this past week and weekend. Waters are starting to recede, in fact we have perfect streamer fishing conditions for trout on the Jackson or Smith rivers this coming week. Musky waters should be back a good fishing level [...]
With each passing days we get closer to Spring. It hasn't been a cold Winter but it has been a wet one. Some areas in the South the past two days received 4 plus inches of rain. A lot of the South is flooding so please be safe out there. Here in Virginia it wasn't [...]
Old man Winter hasn't been to harsh so far. Since the new year has arrived its been rather pleasant here in central Virginia. Some beautiful weather, a little cold weather, and some wet weather, but I have seen way worse in my 42 years. I'll take the inconsistent weather over just straight cold any day. [...]
Its been almost a month since my last blog post. I have been mainly spending time with my wife and son as much as possible. 2019 was a great year guiding and my best to date, and with a lot of time spent away from home March- November, Winter gives me the opportunity to catch [...]
With Christmas approaching some folks maybe wondering what to get that fly fisherman on their list. Well for those hard to buy for, how about a gift certificate from Matt Miles Fly Fishing for a guided fishing trip. A fly fishing guided trip is also a great gift for the beginner fisherman. Hiring a guide [...]
Well its officially the season you have to work harder to catch fish. Shorter days and colder weather changes the way fish eat and what they eat. The Jackson River near Covington, Va has fished well this Fall but this week water temperatures have dropped below 50 degrees. When the water temp gets near 45 [...]
It's been seven days now since my return from my third trip to Brazil. It was another fantastic trip with Nomadic Waters. My past two trips we fished the Utama region and to see something new we went to the Rio Negro river this year. The Rio is a intimidating river, largest tributary to the [...]
Fall is here and our first cold front of October came yesterday with some much needed rain. It has been very dry here in Central Virginia. The low and clear water can make fishing very challenging and unfortunately not worth the time depending on where you are going. Small mountain streams are super low and [...]
Well we are down to the last couple weeks of good top water fly fishing for smallmouth bass. I really dread the day I have to start fishing with streamers after three solid months of throwing floating flies. Streamer fishing can be quite good in October and November if we have mild weather. So there [...]
Wowza its been hot. Thankfully we have temps the rest of the week in the 80"s not the 90's. The heat didn't effect the fishing to bad. By this past weekend the water temps on the James River had reached 87 degrees which put the fish down deep. Today its 70 degrees and raining so [...]