Texas fly fishingfresh water and salt
Where each fish lives, how it feeds, and what that means for the fly.
Redfish — red drum, to the biologists — are the reason most Texas fly anglers own an eight-weight. They live in water so shallow their backs break the surface, they eat crabs and s…
Spotted seatrout are the most common gamefish in the Texas bays and the most consistently underestimated by fly anglers. They are not difficult to catch. They are difficult to catc…
Tarpon in Texas are a matter of timing and tolerance for disappointment. They pass along the beachfront and through the passes from roughly July into October, they are large, and t…
A largemouth on a fly rod is the most available good fishing in Texas. Every county has a stock tank, a reservoir arm, or a river backwater holding fish, and a six-weight with a fl…
The Guadalupe bass is the state fish of Texas and lives nowhere else. It is a small fish — a fourteen-incher is a good one — that holds in the current seams of Hill Country rivers …
