Within about 50 yards of the shore, I hooked and landed a nice rainbow in churned-up water that looked about like chocolate milk. This was a testament to the effectiveness of the noise-producing, fish attracting features of the Midnight Reaper fly we were all using.
First of all, most trout fishermen don’t fish in the dark, so this is not the type of fly typically found in fly shop bins or even online. This fly has never seen the light of day on any body of water – not that it can’t be fished during the day, it’s just that I’ve only fished it at night! This fly is big, black, ugly, noisy and looks like an unkempt Woolly Bugger on steroids.
...At this time in June, when the moon is right, the night is for fishing and the day is for sleeping - to re-charge for the next night’s fishing. We rarely see other fishermen on the lake joining us in our nightly addiction. There would be plenty of room out there to never bump into each other – if they only knew what kind of fish they could catch...
It began one morning at sunrise in 2016 on Utah’s Strawberry reservoir. I was fishing a woolly bugger around the inlets of Chicken Creek West and not one fish had even bumped my fly during the first hour or so on the water. Baffled by the lack of interest in this normally hot Strawberry fly, I decided to change to a new leech pattern I had been experimenting with to see if it would interest these seemingly dormant trout...
Within about 50 yards of the shore, I hooked and landed a nice rainbow in churned-up water that looked about like chocolate milk. This was a testament to the effectiveness of the noise-producing, fish attracting features of the Midnight Reaper fly we were all using.
First of all, most trout fishermen don’t fish in the dark, so this is not the type of fly typically found in fly shop bins or even online. This fly has never seen the light of day on any body of water – not that it can’t be fished during the day, it’s just that I’ve only fished it at night! This fly is big, black, ugly, noisy and looks like an unkempt Woolly Bugger on steroids.
...At this time in June, when the moon is right, the night is for fishing and the day is for sleeping - to re-charge for the next night’s fishing. We rarely see other fishermen on the lake joining us in our nightly addiction. There would be plenty of room out there to never bump into each other – if they only knew what kind of fish they could catch...
I came across this interesting article from the Harvard Medical School and wanted to pass it along. Key points: Humankind has learned over millenn...
Twice a year I take a road trip through Idaho and Montana to check in on my LakeStream Studio art retailers and restock any art that has sold. This...
Fly Fishing for Monster Stillwater Trout by the Light of the Moon I had been looking forward to the 14th of June all year. According to the Ol...
It began one morning at sunrise in 2016 on Utah’s Strawberry reservoir. I was fishing a woolly bugger around the inlets of Chicken Creek West and not one fish had even bumped my fly during the first hour or so on the water. Baffled by the lack of interest in this normally hot Strawberry fly, I decided to change to a new leech pattern I had been experimenting with to see if it would interest these seemingly dormant trout...
