It doesn’t matter if it’s a trout rising to sip a caddis fly or a ... scooped-mouth poppers, they tend to be extra buoyant, which you can use to create even more noise by fishing them on ...

Smallmouth bass often ghost up under a popper ... re fishing for it, but pike are less forgiving, especially when they eat at the surface. A striper or largemouth or redfish often sucks a fly ...

They can be used to target trout, along with bass, pike, and other predatory fish in both ... This presentation is called for when fishing with a streamer or a topwater fly like a popper. It’s an ...

I use an 8-weight rod for pike regardless of whether I’m fishing locally for fish that average 20 to 25 inches, or in Saskatchewan where a shot at a 50-incher is very real. If that 50 eats my fly, I’m ...

One exception is if you are fishing with a cane pole in your county of residence. Whether you use a fly rod with a popper and dropper, a cane pole, or some kind of tackle in between, a stringer of ...

The family moved to the Twin Cities area when he was 11, and he didn’t get back into serious fly fishing until about 30 years ago. “Fall fishing is a great time to catch bigger pike,” Young ...

Fly fishing for giant pike is the main attraction at Wheeler River Lodge. This Precambrian Shield as it is called, is a leftover gift from the glaciers of the last Ice Age 10,000 years ago ...

Fishing fly-rod poppers, you are in it for the fun of the strike, not the cash of the tournament win. I have caught bass to five pounds on poppers there in front of my house. Not many that big ...