Coarse & predators
Chub, barbel, perch and pike on the fly.
Coarse Fish on the Fly
Chub, perch, carp, pike — the same entomology, closer water, and fights that make you reconsider your tackle.
Same entomology, closer water, harder fighters.
Chub on the Fly
Foam beetles under alders, big dries down the streamy glides, small streamers when the river drops — coarse on the fly with the most willing target there is.
Foam beetle under cover. Big dry on the glide. 5–6wt.
Barbel on the Fly
Sight-fishing on crystal Spanish rivers — a foam beetle upstream of a tailing fish, and then the kind of run that tests your backing knot.
Foam beetle ahead of tailing fish. 5wt for haasi.
Perch on the Fly
The predator hiding under your local pontoon — micro Clousers, balanced leeches and mini muddlers. Three lanes, ten patterns, year-round fish.
Micro Clouser, strip-pause, tight to structure. 5wt, barbless.
Winter Pike on the Fly
What the evidence says about pike and weather, where pike lie in cold water, the slow deep retrieve, who sets the seasons, and how to put a pike back in good order.
Fresh water beats weather. Cold is no bar. Dusk, a slow fly, a wire trace every time.