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The Best Tide to Fish a Flat

What is the best tide to fish ?  I know of anglers, and even captains and guides, who plan every day they fish or not fish based on the tide. There are other anglers who fish only the first third...

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Tags: fishing, tide, dave, gourley, fly, slack, high, low, charts,

Carp: grade school before you give flats fishing a college try

Carp and saltwater flats fishing? Some may scoff at this idea, but let me explain. I was casting flies to carp decades before it was cool. I learned a great deal from fly fishing for carp around...

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Tags: permit, bonefish, sight, fishing, dave, gourley, fly, carp, strip, set,

Any Fish, Any Time

I must admit I look at every body of water and every fish with a fly rod in mind. I've turned my back on Silver Creek during a massive brown drake hatch to go cast flies to carp in a muddy Snake River...

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Tags: idaho, fishing, fly, smallmouth, bass, carp, bluegill, lady fish, jack crevalle, ditch pickles,

The boat, your vessel to adventure

There is something very special about a vessel that connects a fly angler to the fish of this watery planet. Be it a drift boat, panga or flats boat, it will take you on a journey no other vehicle can...

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Tags: permit, tarpon, yucatan, fishing, flats, panga, fly, boat, drift, pole, casting, captain, guide,

Sight Fishing Lessons Learned

Having cut my fly fishing teeth in the famed, spring-fed waters of Idaho’s Silver Creek, I thought I had the skill of sight fishing down when I ventured into the world of saltwater flats fishing. As I...

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Tags: permit, fly fishing, sight, fishing, flats, dave, gourley,