This is a report from the “newbie” we took along with us for the  ASBWPA Clean Up. To be fair, this was not Scott’s first fly fishing trip so he really isn’t a true “newbie” but it was his first weekend on the Au Sable. We asked him to put together a little trip story [...]

Jesus. When someone catches a smalll mouth on the fly this big, what do you say? “Holy mother of Christ that thing is just fucking sloppy!” comes to mind. I won’t say who sent me this (read on) or where it came from. I’m not even tagging this post too much because I can’t even [...]

Summer fishing is my favorite time of year. Specifically any local stream in the evening chasing smallies. Caufield and I hit the River Raisin last week and did pretty well and even saw a White Fly hatch…Good times.

 
There really isn’t much that I can say about this except that it was fly caught, it wasn’t the biggest one, and you can read about it here.

Hit the Au Sable a few weeks ago for a few days to fish the hex hatch and since I was there we didn’t really find any bugs. It figures. Why would one of the founders of a site called Hatchless expect any bugs? I guess it isn’t entirely true because we did fish a [...]

In an earlier post I said I would follow up on the trip to the Au Sable and tell the story of the drift boat so here it is.
I’ll keep the boat story short but remember I said it has been four long years. Most everyone I know has been tired of hearing about it [...]

The Swedes do it right. Snow, Skate, Fish…ahhh. Via FFFT.

I’ve heard it said that if you don’t like the weather in Northwest Ohio, just wait 10 minutes and it will change.  Saturday skies opened up and  we were all blessed with an amazing April day near 80 degrees.  Today finds wind, rain, and 50 degrees.  The same can be said for our rivers.  Though [...]

A couple weekends ago some the Hatchless crew headed south to the Mad River in search of a Henny hatch. Now before I get into this grand adventure let me remind you that we are not very lucky when it comes to the so called “hatch”. As a matter of fact I have yet to [...]