Untangled: Fly Fishing For Everyone | Ventures Fly Co.

The biggest mistake you can make as an angler is ignoring all the other ways that exist to catch fish. Of course, we're here because we love fly fishing, BUT — there is A TON you can learn and incorporate into your fly fishing, from the world of conventional angling. Just this year, my own knowledge and skills fishing on lakes has grown leaps and bounds, largely thanks to les...

When the fish won't cooperate, and everything you try fails to get any trout in the net, then what do you do? When you head home from the river with more questions than answers, how do you salvage the day? That's the topic we discuss in this episode of Untangled, where you're treated to a story about Spencer and Alex's latest adventure - that didn't go according to plan.

If you travel to fish - whether that's to the river an hour from your house that you've just never visited yet, or you leave the country - you probably wonder what flies you need to pack along. Are the fish all eating the same stuff, or do you need an entirely new fly box for every river?

Honestly, this is a question that gets over-thought. And that's because trout all...

You can catch just about anything on a fly rod — pike, bass, carp, bluegill, escaped aquarium fish in Florida, and even gar! Everyone talks about how fun these fish are to catch, but for most anglers, trips for permit, tarpon, salmon, dorado, and the like, are out of reach. The travel and cost makes them tough for an average angler to do more than dream about. But there's one...

Everyone says that if you're gonna catch big fish, you gotta fish big flies. And big flies usually means tossing streamers! So you grab a woolly bugger, or maybe a meat whistle, or if you're feeling like living on the edge, a slumpbuster. You head off to the river, start tossing these flies in spots that look promising, and BAM — something freight trains your fly like it owes...