photo by Chase McCoy If you've never fished for smallmouth bass with a fly rod, you are missing out ... with that of a largemouth. I love fishing for largemouth, but the smallmouth is a different ...

but the act of swinging flies with a fly rod is fairly straightforward. (You can also swing a lure with a conventional rod-and-reel, but we’ll keep the focus strictly on fly fishing here.) Read Next: ...

Over the winter, Sam purposely tied some nickel-sized crab flies in green because he ... a 9 weight fly rod is the minimum I would use. Sam Alsop was fishing a 7 weight. A blackfish is a lot ...