Dark Skies Fly Fishing

09/16/2024

Issue #3, Fall 2024 of Dark Skies Fly Fishing. Read and download for free here: https://darkskiesflyfishing.com/magazine.

Fly Fishing Magazine is a quarterly, regional, digital magazine covering PA, NY, OH, WV, VA, MD, DE, and NJ. In this issue you'll find informative and entertaining articles about:

- Lefty Kreh
- Nymphing for Great Lakes Steelhead
- Favorite Brook Trout Streams in Shenandoah National Park
- Fly Fishing the Juniata River
- The Northwest PA Chapter of Trout Unlimited
- Fall Fishing on Neshannock Creek, PA
- and Much More!

Dark Skies Fly Fishing Digital Magazine Summer 2024 – Issue No.02 Dark Skies Fly Fishing is a digital regional fly fishing magazine featuring how-to, personal experience, product reviews, and destination pieces featuring rivers, lakes, and streams in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Ma...

06/17/2024

Issue #2, Summer 2024, of Dark Skies Fly Fishing is now available to read for FREE on the website. https://darkskiesflyfishing.com/magazine/

This issue is packed with articles!
- Interview with Tim Cammisa, author of Fly Tying for Everyone
- Fly Fishing for Fallfish
- Chasing Bronzebacks: An Introduction to Smallmouth Bass on the Fly
- Sara Jane McBride: North America's First Entomologist
- New Jersey's Ken Lockwood Gorge
- 3 "Dam Good" Places to Fish in Northwestern PA
- Mad River Chapter of Trout Unlimited
- Bowman's Creek: A Story of History, Hope, and Beauty
- AND MUCH MORE!

We hope you'll check it out and share with friends! Again, this magazine is 100% free to view and download, so please help us spread the word!

Dark Skies Fly Fishing is a digital regional fly fishing magazine featuring how-to, personal experience, product reviews, and destination pieces featuring rivers, lakes, and streams in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York.

05/01/2024

Does bead color matter? Sometimes yes, a lot. Sometimes not so much. But with so many color options and styles to choose from, how do you know which ones are worth using and which are just for show? The latest blog on the website discusses all of this and more. Hope you'll check it out!

https://darkskiesflyfishing.com/post/tying-and-fishing-beaded-flies-colors-to-use-and-when-to-use-them/

03/24/2024

Curious what articles are in the premiere issue of Dark Skies Fly Fishing Magazine? Here's a sample of what you can expect -- and they're all FREE to read and enjoy:

- Conservation: Arrowhead Chapter of Trout Unlimited
- Fly Fishing the Shad Run on Virginia's Rivers
- A Guide to Fly Fishing the West Branch Ausable River, NY
- Famous Waters of the Cumberland Valley, PA
- A Great Family and Fishing Destination in Southwestern PA
- A Fly Fishing Road Trip Through West Virginia
- AND MORE!

Dark Skies Fly Fishing is a digital regional fly fishing magazine featuring how-to, personal experience, product reviews, and destination pieces featuring rivers, lakes, and streams in Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, and New York.

03/08/2024

You know it's going to be a good day when the Pennsylvania Council of Trout Unlimited gives you a shoutout in their newsletter! I'm grateful to have their support for this project, and even more grateful to be able to spotlight the wonderful work that they do as an organization at the state level as well as the extraordinary things each chapter does on a local level.

03/05/2024

Now available! Issue #1 of Dark Skies Fly Fishing can now be viewed and downloaded for free on the website! Special thanks to everyone who has contributed articles, offered advice, and supported this project in some way. We are excited to bring this to fruition and hope you enjoy this magazine!

www.darkskiesflyfishing.com/magazine

02/28/2024

Cold weather presents a few challenges in fly fishing, particularly when changing flies and tying on new tippet. Sometimes your fingers just won't do what you want them to do! By our definition, a good cold weather knot is one that can be tied quickly and easily, even with frozen fingers, and the latest post of the website discusses three that should be in your tool bag this spring.

Knots to Know for Cold Weather Fly Fishing Leave a Comment / By Jerry Bush / February 27, 2024 / All, Tactics & Techniques The overhead sun was high and bright during one of my earliest, winter steelhead adventures with a fly rod. I grew up in the snowbelt area near Lake Erie, so that big, glowing b...