Welcome to The Scientific Fly Angler

This post is full of information for those wanting to know more about fishes likely to be encountered in trout streams.

"personal best" trout or other fish are, apparently, all the rage today - as you might imagine, the idea doesn't do much for me.

I review 3 very good books on Smallmouth Bass by Karczynski and Landwehr, and books by Bob Clouser, and Tim Holschlag.

I heard from several other anglers that if you can catch fish in Wisconsin, you can catch them anywhere - and they were right!

We are blessed in Wisconsin to have an abundance of water and to have the access to waters we have. Not everywhere is so fortunate.

It has been two years, more or less. For a bit of a confession - two years in, I am still figuring this thing out...

Wading boots are a compromise. Weight, durability, soles, tightening system, etc. are all specific to the application.

Do you hire a guide or do it yourself? These are my thoughts which are formed by my experiences which are relatively few.

Why this post got written was I read an article on the Hatch Magazine website, Different Strokes for Different Anglers. My thoughts follow.

Each person has different needs and desires in a pack or vest. You may be looking for something much different than I am.

The Scientific Fly Angler turns one year old this week. Not much of a milestone but I felt like writing a bit about the year.

Some of the best smallmouth, musky, and Walleye rivers in the World might be the St. Croix, Chippewa, Black, Wolf, and Menominee Rivers.

While I have a predilection for flowing water, I have a particular fondness for our state's namesake river - particularly the lower river.

The Tongue Depressor is a fly pattern from Bill Sherer's We Tie It Fly Fishing Specialists. It is the fly angler's spoon - a great bass fly!

Keith Fulsher's Thunder Creek Minnow is a fly with a Wisconsin origin that is fairly well known but I'd say much less known than the...

This one is mostly a "data drop" - lots of patterns and links to place you can do a bit of research on your own.

Colors ultimately, are pretty simple - a light belly and a darker top - the rest is really up to you and what you are imitating.

highlight the pattern because it is quite effective and fun to tie and being a Swedish pattern, many of anglers are unlikely to know it.

The internet is a wonderful thing (most of the time). For the angler, there is a wealth of information. I'll concentrate mostly on the where

The images below are a Mangrove Muddler tied by George Close that has been sitting above my tying bench for a decade or better.