Off-colored water can make early-season angling difficult. Fly fishers with skills beyond the swift water know that looking ...

GOOD. Water normal stain; 70 degrees; 0.17 feet above pool. Crappie are fair on brush piles with minnows and jigs. Catfish are slow in 5-6 feet of water ...

Fish will hold near the bottom of the deeper pools and runs where the flow is slowed by the bottom of the river as well as in ...

Crappie and catfish are moving shallow fly fishing with wooly buggers, slow-sinking small fish patterns, or clouser minnows on sunny rocky shores might draw a strike. Report by Guide Alex Guthrie ...

By “matching the hatch” you will draw more strikes from fish ... Another great option is a leech fly. These can be as simple as a wooly bugger, but all variations will produce bites.

Entry tickets are also put in for a drawing for lots of great ... should work for spin fishermen. Fly rodders should try egg patterns, dark wooly buggers, balanced leeches, egg sucking leeches ...

Once located, crappies are easily taken by fly presentations that include streamers, dry flies and even nymphs.

If you are new to fly tying/fishing, or a bit rusty, try just a few easier patterns. Patterns like a Woolly Bugger, the Adams and a Pheasant Tail are easy to learn to tie, and will catch a lot of fish ...

Fly fishermen are casting eggs patterns, streamers, wooly buggers and bead head nymphs. Rainbow trout stocked this week The Cleveland Metroparks released 900 pounds of foot-long rainbow trout into ...