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Swimbaits 101: How and Why You Should Fish Them

Conventional

Editor's Note: This submission comes from TFO amabassador Will Dykstra, who is dialed in swimbaits. Enjoy. When it comes to targeting large predator fish, few presentations match the subtlety of swimbaits. Technology has benefited this lure category as much as any on the market today. A big reason for the...

Women Are Fishing More Than Ever — And They’re Not Going Anywhere

Fly

Women are everywhere on the water. Fishing has long been a male-dominated pastime, but that trend has changed. Fly fishing, and fishing in general, is no longer your father’s sport. It’s your mother’s and your sister’s. It is, in essence, for everyone, male or female. Few have really studied this...

Tips on How to Fish for Ice-Out Bass

Conventional

Editor's Note: This post comes from TFO Ambassador Burnie Haney. Enjoy. When we talk about ice out bass fishing in the northeast, we’re talking cold water, and believe me, it’s specialty fishing. In short, you must really want to do it, or there’s no point in reading any further. Now,...

Fifteen Minutes with Junior Ambassador Braden Miller

Fly

TFO ambassadors and advisory staffers cover a wide spectrum. Young and old. Amateur and professional. Famous and relatively obscure. Young Braden Miller is in a class by himself. After all, how many junior-high kids represent a major fly-rod company? Braden recently joined TFO as a junior ambassador. He’s just 13,...

TFO’s Bob Clouser Talks Carp on Fly

Fly

I’ve never caught a bonefish. It’s on my bucket list, but the tropics may have to wait a few months. Fortunately, I’ve got a freshwater option close to home. Carp. They’re just as wily as a bone. And pound for pound they fight just as hard. And they’re cheaper. Many...

It’s Showtime for the 2019 Fly Fishing Film Tour

Fly

Cabin fever got you down? If it’s too cold or too windy to fish, there’s another way to beat the winter blues. If you can’t get on the water, then the next best thing to do is to watch fishing. The solution: Say hello to the Fly Fishing Film Tour,...

Tools of the Trade for Catching Walleye

Conventional

Sensitivity, stealth and pin-point bait placement are some of the cornerstones of effectively targeting walleye. To be an effective walleye angler, you need to start with the appropriate rod. Below are some of the features of the TFO line-up of walleye specific spinning and casting rods. GTS Walleye rods incorporate...

A Few Minutes About Musky On Fly With Blane Chocklett

Fly

When the southern mountain trout fishing slows to a crawl in the dead of winter, I hunt grouse. Now my attention has turned to fishing for musky. The two species are different. One’s a mountain bird, the other a toothy fish, but the two have one thing in common: They...

Pace Rested and Ready for 2019 Pro Bass Season

Conventional

Cliff Pace had two objectives this offseason: To rest. And to get better. After a few months off from the grind of competitive bass fishing, Pace said he feels somewhat rejuvenated as he prepares for start of 2019. “It helps me from a relaxation standpoint,” Pace said. “I love to...

How To Get Started in Bass Fishing

Conventional

I caught my first bass more than 40 years ago, on a farm pond a pitch and a flip from my current house in the Western North Carolina mountains. I remember the 4-pounder got away after I stuck the stringer in the mud, and the big green fish simply swam...

Part V: How to Get Started in Fly Casting

Fly

If you’ve followed TFO’s How to Get Started in Fly Fishing series, you have a rod, reel, fly line and leader from parts I, II, III and IV. Now you need to be able to cast. You don’t need to be Lefty Kreh or Flip Pallot to catch fish, but...

Part III: The Basics of Fly Reels

Fly

So you have a basic understanding of fly fishing and a fly rod from Part I and II of our how to get started in fly fishing series. Now you need a reel. Fly-fishing reels come in all shapes, sizes and styles. No blog post can begin to summarize all...