Fly Fishing Articles

Learn to Fly Fish! Brush up on your fly fishing skills!

We have compiled several Fly Fishing Articles and Fly Fishing Related Information by Harry Murray and the folks at Murray's Fly Shop to help you improve your fly fishing experiences.  Many of these articles cover our most often asked questions.  Please give us a call if you have any questions or comments (540-984-4212). Have a suggestion for an article you think might be beneficial to others? Email us, Messenger us or give us an old fashioned phoned call.  We would love to hear your suggestions.

• Smallmouth Bass Minnow Matching Tactics

• 1985 Flyfishing Magazine Article "Murray's Hellgrammite"

• Early Season Nymphing in Small Mountain Streams

• My Three Favorite Bass Surface Bugs

• Mountain Trout Fishing

• The Wonderful Trico Mayfly

• Catching Smallmouth Bass Around Aquatic Grassbeds 

• The Beginning of Murray's Fly Shop

• Virginia's Ten Best Flies for Bass & Trout

• Early March Mountain Trout Fishing

• Winterizing Fly Tackle

• Winter Trout Fishing

• Fly Fishing in the Fall on the Shenandoah River

• October Trout Fishing on Big Stoney Creek

• Reading the Feeding Stations on a Mountain Trout Stream

• How to Fish and Tie the Murray's Hellgrammite Fly

• Fly Fishing Virginia's Passage Creek

• Reading a Smallmouth Bass River like the Shenandoah River

• Successful Float Trips for Smallmouth Bass

• Fishing a Crayfish for Smallmouth Bass

• Fly Fishing Critters for Smallmouth Bass

• Fly Fishing for Smallmouth Bass in Flat Water

• My favorite Smallmouth Bass Fly Fishing Tackle

• Fishing Terrestrials for Trout on Spring Creeks

• Fly Fishing Virginia's Stoney Creeks

• The Wonderful Mr. Rapidan Fly Family

• Fly Fishing Tip: Are you casting too much?

• Selecting a Fly Rod - Let's make sense of it!

• Which Dry Fly Floatant works best? A side by side comparison.

• Cleaning and Disinfecting your Fly Fishing Gear

• Choosing a Fly Fishing Line

• Fly Tying Material Weight Chart

• Standard Fly Line Weight Charts

Check out our Nuts & Bolts Fly Fishing Videos and our Fly Fishing Podcasts.

Learn to Fly Fish with On-the-Stream Lessons

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