Posts Tagged ‘Pennsylvania Fly Fishing’

Late Winter PA Fly Fishing “You don’t know until you go.” It’s become my mantra with regard to late winter PA fly fishing. It was also the final thought that I had before hopping over to one of my favorite local streams this week. All the February snow is finally melting away, causing many area streams to become…

2021 Central PA Fly Fishing It’s time to get ready for the 2021 Central PA fly fishing season! Tie your flies, check your gear, and buy your 2021 PA fishing license with a trout stamp. You may purchase and print your 2021 PA fishing license online here. With 2020 behind us, we are looking forward…

PA Early Winter Fly Fishing: A Prolonged Terrestrial Season We all have a confidence fly, a pattern that proves its worth time and again. A hare’s ear, a caddis pupa, wooly bugger, pheasant tail, San Juan worm… ask 100 anglers and receive 100 different answers. When it comes to PA early winter fly fishing, you…

Hunting for Hidden Treasure: PA Spring Fly Fishing If you’re like me, you enjoy scouring your maps looking for a promising “blue line” to explore & fish. It’s thrilling to think that you might find a potential gem of which most people are unaware. I sought a PA spring fly fishing spot with no crowds…

Fly Fishing is Good for Your Health Monday is the perfect day to take a momentary mental break from your work and appreciate a recent study published by BioScience Journal. The study confirms what we anglers already know, that spending time in nature can “help reduce feelings of stress and even improve your self-esteem…” Fishing in Particular…

Spruce Creek PA Fly Fishing Season 2019 While that cold winter breeze blows by, remember that we are only about 5 months away from spring 2019. Trout Haven’s dates for next season are now up on the website, and now is the time to book your spot for Spruce Creek PA fly fishing season 2019.…

Strategies for Early Summer PA Fly Fishing We are only hours away from the longest day of the year and the official beginning of Summer 2018. The dwindling big mayfly hatches have become a dusk to twilight affair. Don’t despair, you need not be a night owl to have productive dry fly fishing during this…

Early May PA Fly Fishing: BWO’s, Drakes, & Streamers With the unpredictable weather & flows, the key to successful early May PA fly fishing is versatility. If you were expecting certain hatches in the first week of May, like sulphurs, you were probably disappointed. We did, however, see plenty of hatching BWO’s and Slate Drakes and…

Green Drake Hatch & the “Fish of a Lifetime” If you spend enough time on the water, you’re bound to experience what some might call a magical day. This is a day when all variables seem to align in your favor – the right spot, the right hatch, the right fly, and eager fish. I was…

Hook a Hog this Autumn: There seems to be something about the change in seasons that brings big trout out of the woodwork. Fall and spring offer the best opportunities to catch multiple hogs on any given outing. Be aware that fall is also spawning season; do your best to avoid disturbing any redds and their…