Summertime is here! The water is clear, the air is thick with potential, and if you're like me, you're just itching to tie on a dry fly and get after it. It doesn’t matter if I’m targeting brown trout in Central Pennsylvania, Iceland, or Montana, this is a favorite season to throw dry flies! But which ones outperform others?
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The Sulphur (PMD) hatch is one that many anglers look forward to. Don’t just show up and fish, instead invest in your fly fishing time on the water with this gear to make for a more enjoyable experience.
Poetry in motion for fly fishers is watching a trout rise to a dry fly. This visual aspect of fly fishing is a style many prefer, especially apparent by the number of anglers that chase epic bug emergences like blanket caddisfly hatches on Montana’s Missouri River, the Hex mayfly in Michigan, and Penn Creek’s Green Drake hatch in central Pennsylvania. The simple approach is to show up and fish, yet the following pieces of gear will increase the number of fish you catch, plus make for a more enjoyable experience.
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