Actually the red ass referred for fishing here in Arkansas is a soft hackle. Usually tied with partridge, red thread tag(the ass part) and peacock for a thorax behind the hackle. It can be tied with bead or without bead. I tie mine with quail because i have a large supplier of quail here close to h...

I enjoy fishing but I enjoy taking my children more. My little girl is 6 and caught her first fish on the fly rod this year and my son 9 is learning to cast right now. She cant cast but she is one heck of a line mender, better than the boy. We went to a local pond the other evening and she caught a...

No I havent done the upper half of the rod, I will try that in between baseball games this week in the yard. I have an old rod that I dont use anymore that I can use the upper section of it and I have a friend that has a 7.5 foot 4 weight that I will see if I can borrow for him to fish with. All of...

Thanks for the replies. I never thought of the pantomim theory but it sounds interesting. I think I will try it our next outing. I thinkthe rod is probably to heavy for him but we are trying not to cast to far. I dont mind him roll casting at all espicially when he is catching fish and he is good a...

I have a problem and I think some of you guys may be able to help with it. I am in the process of helping my 9 year old to learn casting. We have fished and he has caught fish but he keeps trying to roll cast all time and not cast the fly line into the air. I need some tips for teaching him how to ...

I fish the Red quite a bit. Mother in law lives 20 minutes from it. You should check on [url=http://www.flyfishingarkansas.com,]www.flyfishingarkansas.com,[/url] lots of Arkansas fly fishers on there. Cant rule out midges, tons of them. Like Davy said chromonids. I like and have good luck on jujube...

It seems to me that Paul might have the right idea. It is you that might need to rethink. He is unbathed and fishes all the damn time and you still buy his dinner. There is nothing wrong with that, it may be all things right that none of us have figured out. He should write a book on how to pick up...