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Spring fly fishing in Syracuse & Central New York is here! Trout activity & water temperatures are on the rise. We'll be getting into prime fly fishing now through mid-June. Jump on your preferred date(s) early! Weekends are filling quickly. See you on the water!

skunked...

and out of beer...

Welcome to my fly fishing blog! I invite you to follow along as I share my thoughts on all fly fishing related "stuff". I'll be sharing fishing stories, tips, gear reviews, pointers, trip summaries, reports and more. Tales of defeat, triumphs, mishaps, more defeats, and lessons learned await.

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low and clear, but cold

Brian Lansing

Sep 24, 2019
2 min

low and clear, but cold

Sunday morning, I had the pleasure of sharing the stream and showing Jenny and Kathy around a Central New York trout stream.

Fall Preparations

Brian Lansing

Sep 10, 2019
3 min

Fall Preparations

Take advantage of time now to tie flies and gear up before you have to scramble at the end of the month or in October and November.

Life in the Abyss – Jigging for Adirondack Lake Trout

Brian Lansing

Sep 6, 2019
3 min

Life in the Abyss – Jigging for Adirondack Lake Trout

The meat eating lakers crushed the jig and swung immediately back to the cover and structure of the bottom. Big head shakes are the norm.

weekend review pt. 2: loads of pickerel

Brian Lansing

Aug 28, 2019
3 min

weekend review pt. 2: loads of pickerel

They stalk it for a ways and then nose up out of the blackness inhaling the fly from behind.

weekend review: part 1 - severely bug bitten and exploring new water

Brian Lansing

Aug 26, 2019
3 min

weekend review: part 1 - severely bug bitten and exploring new water

We arrived back to the cabin tired, severely bug bitten, thirsty, hungry, and smelly, but not skunked or out of beer.

buggers and "bop it!"

Brian Lansing

Aug 21, 2019
2 min

buggers and "bop it!"

The bugger is kind of like the #flyfishing edition of “bop it”. The commands for the bugger could be “swing it!”, “strip it!”, “jig it!"...

Lose a few flies, catch more trout.

Brian Lansing

Aug 12, 2019
4 min

Lose a few flies, catch more trout.

Trout live, eat, and hide in the places that are more difficult to fish. If you’re not losing some flies, you’re missing out on trout.

summertime scouting

Brian Lansing

Aug 6, 2019
4 min

summertime scouting

This is a scouting mission. Summer is the easiest time to find new water and see what’s really going on in the stream or river.

think big | it's hopper season

Brian Lansing

Aug 1, 2019
2 min

think big | it's hopper season

This means big, fat, juicy, buoyant, high riding, foamy, elk hair covered, rubber legged grasshoppers. It’s hopper season for the next...

Guys' Weekend

Brian Lansing

Jul 29, 2019
3 min

Guys' Weekend

It was a guys’ weekend. Five of us were on a summertime trout catching, beer drinking mission in Upstate New York.

welcome to my world

Brian Lansing

Jul 15, 2019
2 min

welcome to my world

Neither of those is an ideal situation, but the combination of the two could lead you to have conversations with nobody but yourself.

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