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 [...]
Back in Virginia from my 4th hosted trip to Turneffe Flats Lodge in Belize. Turneffe Flats has never let me down and that is one of the main reason I keep returning! I will be will returning Fall of 2020 once I get the dates set. This trip I took eight anglers to the lodge [...]
Fresh off the plane from a week in Florida with my family on vacation. It was sunny and it was hot but a great time was had. I was able to sneak out a day to tarpon fish with Lost Coast Anglers out of the Tampa area. Awesome experience watching the tarpon slide just off [...]
Just finished up my last trips of the season for striped bass in Weldon, NC. It was a great fishing till the end of my second week. The mass of fish departed the spawning grounds a little early this year. That can happen, but the 15 years I have been fishing this run, this was [...]
I have been guiding striped bass since my last blog post. I finished up the freshwater striped bass run on the Staunton River at Brookneal, VA on May 4th. The freshwater run was frustrating this year, it seemed like you had to be in the right place at the right time to get any numbers [...]
Spring was looking great, rivers were at great levels and caddis hatches were going strong. Things changed a week ago with a strong storm front coming from the west. Some places in Virginia received a couple inches of rain. Definitely not what I want to see after 2018's wash out. Yesterday another strong front came [...]
We have had great conditions on the Jackson river lately for streamer fishing. Since the rains have calmed down the Jackson river flows are down to a great level for nymph and dry fly fishing now. Soon the caddis will start hatching and get the fish looking up for Spring. The native brook trout streams [...]
Its been 30 days since my last post. I have no idea where the time went but felt like it was time well spent. It has finally started to feel like Spring here in Virginia. The rain has calm down and actually it has been dry for over a week, so thats a new record [...]