Tips of the Week: Get Away

Get away from the crowds. Fly fishing is a solitary hobby, and the fishing is always better when there’s less pressure.

While the honey holes may have more fish (likely stocked), the upper stretches hold the wild and holdover fish that actually prefer flies over bait — unlike stocked fish that are raised on pellets in tanks far, far away.

If you get away from the crowds and the stocked fish, you'll catch more fish on flies and have a better chance of catching a wild species that fights unlike any of those stockers you'll come across downstream.