The rains have came and instead of guiding everyday this week I have been cancelling and rescheduling trips. My biggest competition is Mother Nature and she always wins. We do need the rain though, it has been dry and unseasonably warm for April. Everything has been early this year. Fish spawns like the smallmouth bass [...]
Spring is finally here! We were teased in February with beautiful weather, then March arrived and brought the cold back. Extended forecast for central Virginia looks like Spring is here to stay awhile. Spring brings a lot of options to the fly fisherman in Virginia. One of the most exciting fisheries getting ready to start [...]
I thought it was Winter still, but this past weekends air temps were in the 60's one day and high 70's the following. The weather has been nutsy coo coo no doubt, but not complaining. Hopefully the warmer than normal temperatures hold out all the way through March. Wouldn't hurt my feelings if I didn't [...]
With no guided trips scheduled this past week and no pressing honey do's I went fishing everyday. When you have air temps in the upper 50's and low 60's in January, you got to take advantage. With most of my fishing buddies having normal jobs I spent the week alone on the water except one. [...]
This week I did my first few musky guided trips of the Fall/Winter season. Started out this past Wednesday with a couple great guys, one from PA and the other a fishing guide in CO. Weather was on the warm side this week, in fact I believe we may have broke some records. I wasn't [...]
I had to reschedule Andy's trip two different times this winter due to high water and weather. We had originally planned to fish for muskie for two days, but with the flows still higher than I like I suggested we do a day after brown trout with streamers. Jackson River near Covington, VA fished great [...]
The muskie biologist for the VA Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries called me up earlier this week to see if I wanted to join them in shocking for musky this year. He informed me he has been tagging fish with a numbered yellow tag near the dorsal fin. These tags need to be removed [...]
First day of Winter wasn't too bad. Started out with rain but that ended late morning and air temps reached 60 degrees. It surely hasn't felt like Fall or Winter, Christmas Day forecast is 70 degrees believe it or not. The mild weather has been nice but tons of rain has fallen since early October. [...]
On Black Friday I had Eric out after his first musky on the fly. He had hooked 4 previously, but none landed. Friday we got two muskies on, but lost both so now he is up to 6 misses. Tuesday we tried again and after moving some fish, Eric gets another hit and after a [...]
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 [...]
