Flatland Fly Fishers

Essential spring creek skills

Essential spring creek skills I guess I should blame my high school buddy Mark. I had stumbled along without a mentor in my early fly fishing adventures, fishing small mountain streams on family camping trips but most of my early fly fishing was spent dragging a Woolly Worm behind a primitive float tube in southern Idaho’s des...

The Headstand Natural

Lance Egan's Carp Fly | The Headstand Natural | Fly Tying Tutorial In this fly tying tutorial Lance ties his Egan's Headstand - Natura...

If you decide to head out west and do some trout fishing.

The trout angler's guide to fishing through drought

Of course with our all warm water fishing around here; we can stay local and not worry about most of this.

The trout angler's guide to fishing through drought On Colorado’s Front Range, essentially a high desert, longtime trout anglers tend to be more tuned into the realities of drought, low water, and rising temperatures — all things that are fundamentally bad for trout fishing and, more importantly, the fish themselves. Many anglers around the count...

The Great Plains Nature Center is going to be closed for a while to do some fountain repairs on the building and then some remodeling. The club is going to still be meeting outside the building for a little while and when it starts cooling down meet at a members church. Watch our page and website for those details. In the mean time they are having one heck of a sale at the Nature Center. Here is an idea of some of the things. They are even selling the taxidermy items that were in the building.

Parachute Blue Winged Olive Fly Tying Instructions by Charlie Craven

Parachute Blue Winged Olive Fly Tying Instructions by Charlie Craven Parachute Blue Winged Olive Fly Tying Recipe: (Click the links bel...

Fly Fishing and Your Health: How One Day Fishing Can Change Everything

Fly Fishing and Your Health: How One Day Fishing Can Change Everything - Fulling Mill Blog Understanding the connections between fly fishing and your health just might be the justification you needed to hear to go fishing more.

Master Sight Fishing for Bigger Fish

Spotting Trout: Master Sight Fishing for Bigger Fish - Fly Fisherman Learn how to spot trout using sight fishing techniques, reading water, and visual cues to target bigger fish and improve your success.

Purpose-Built Warmwater Flies by Chuck Kraft

Purpose-Built Warmwater Flies by Chuck Kraft - Fulling Mill Blog Read about the legendary Chuck Kraft, check out his signature warmwater flies, and learn about his contributions to the sport of fly fishing.

A few of us spent the morning helping at the Riverfest fishing derby. What I saw caught were carp, channel catfish and flathead. Sure I missed some. Largest I heard was a 27” carp. Saw a 10” flathead which was actually pretty cool looking with the colorations. Good morning. Glad KDWP invited us to help.

How big is your tippet...REALLY?

How big is your tippet...REALLY? I have fished a lot of different tippet brands over the last few years. Over time, I found a few I liked and started doing comparison knot tests. Several popular brands seemed surprisingly weak compared to those I had started to favor. But as I looked closer, I realized there was likely one simple r...