Fishing Journal Fly Fishing Blog — Tall Tails Fly Fishing

Dammed if you do

“Perhaps nothing so emphasizes the extent of Man’s hubris as our attempt to control and alter Nature”. Read more in Issue No. 49 of Southern Culture on the Fly

Collin FullerNovember 20, 2023southern culture on fly, striper, striper on fly, chickamauga dam, tennessee river, fly fishing tennessee riverComment

Tarpon Trip

The journey of chasing silver along the forgotten coast starts well before the skiff is pushed away from the dock.

Jacob EanesSeptember 21, 2023tarpon, tarpon fly fishing, florida fly fishing, tarpon on flyComment

What Comes Before the Fall

Read about our backcountry brook trout experience in Issue No. 48 of Southern Culture on the Fly

Jacob EanesAugust 21, 2023southern culture on fly, brook trout, backpack fishing, backpacking, dryfly fishing, dry flyComment

Streamer Weekend

Read our spring article Streamer Weekend in Volume 2 of Local Flow Magazine

Jacob EanesJune 22, 2023brown trout, south holston, south holston river, streamer fishing, holston river, big brown trout, smallmouth holston river, watauga riverComment

Janus' Game

Check out this article in Issue No. 46 of Southern Culture on the Fly

Collin FullerFebruary 21, 2023striper on fly, striped bass, southern culture on fly, wild trout, rainbow trout, north georgiaComment

Northwest of Nowhere

Follow along as Tall Tails embarks on a backcountry trip into the Canadian boreal forest in search of pike, lake trout, muskie, and solitude!

Jacob EanesOctober 19, 2022canada, canada fishing, northern ontario, ontario canada fishing, ontario fly fishing, canada fly fishing, pike fishing, pike fly fishing, pike on fly, lake trout on fly, lake trout fly fishing, wilderness air escapes, musky fly fishing, musky on fly, float plane, fly-in outpostComment

Back to the Bog

Join us as we return to the Okefenokee and make some new friends along the way! The Okefenokee, Land of the Trembling Earth and home to bowfin, pickerel and living fossils…

Collin FullerJuly 29, 2022Okefenokee, okefenokee swamp, bowfin, bowfin on fly, fly fishing bowfin, georgia river network, okefenokee adventures, fly fishing, chain pickerel, swampComment

Unexpected Places

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step and the river of 20,000 cubic feet per second begins with just a single spring! Follow along as Tall Tails explores one of Georgia’s gems, the Flint river

Jacob EanesJune 17, 2022flint river, georgia river network, flint river keeper, shoal bass, fly fishing bass, bass fly fishing, shoal bass on fly, gar on fly, longnose gar, flint river georgia, shoal lilies, canoe trip, paddle tripComment

Reefs to Mangroves

From the deep blue water of the Atlantic to the tidal mangrove flats South Florida offers expansive fly fishing opportunities for those willing to explore outside the norm.

Jacob EanesMay 25, 2022saltwater fly fishing, fly fishing, offshore fly fishing, snook fishing, snook on fly, docklights, dock light fishing, palm beach fishing, jupiter fishing, jupiter fly fishingComment

Peacock Party

The land of contradiction, South Florida! Read along as we three friends venture back into the urban canals of South Florida in search of domestic Exotics like Peacock bass and Mayan Cichlids

Jacob EanesApril 28, 2022fly fishing, peacock bass, peacock bass fly fishing, cichlids, cichlid fly fishing, mayan cichlid, florida peacock bass, fly fishing florida, bass fly fishingComment

Spring Break

Spring is finally here and the fishing is heating up. We cover a few tips and tricks to help you net more fish this season and highlight a few of our favorite species to target this time of year.

Jacob EanesMarch 15, 2022spring, trout, trout fishing, fly fishing, rainbow trout, blue line, wild trout, float trip, north georgia trout, north georgia fishing, north georgia, north carolina troutComment

Things to Come

With 2021 in the rearview mirror let’s take a quick look back and see what we accomplished! we hope that 2022 brings some equally good fishing opportunities and we dive into a few things we hope to accomplish in the new year

Jacob EanesJanuary 21, 2022Comment

Backcountry Bachelor

Tag along on our backpacking trip into Great Smoky Mountains National Park as we are ferried across Fontana Lake to enjoy a weekend of fishing and backcountry camping. Is this a fishing trip? Yes. Is it something more? Of course!

Jacob EanesSeptember 10, 2021GSMNP, Smoky Mountains, rainbow trout, brown trout, great smoky mountains, backpacking, hiking, backpack fishing, hazel creek, eagle crek, hazel creek fishing Comment

Party in the PNW

From lush forest to high desert, Oregon’s landscape offers incredible opportunities for adventure enthusiast. With four full days we did our best to hike and fish our way through different areas of the state while documenting it along the way.

Jacob EanesAugust 27, 2021oregon, oregon fly fishing, eagle creek trail, redband trout, trout, rainbow trout, native trout, PNW, pacific northwest, fishpond, crater lake, crater lake fishing, crater lake fly fishingComment

Big Water with BlueLine Co.

Our annual Western Pilgrimage continues as Tall Tails visits Adam Hudson of Blue Line Co. fame in Salt Lake City. The trip started with high altitude, native cutthroat but continues now with big water floats on the Snake River

Jacob EanesAugust 12, 2021snake river, cutthroat trout, cutthroat, snake river cutthroat, rafting, blueline, blueline co, blue line flies, dryfly fishing, dry fly, arctic silver, tall tails fly fishingComment

Utah Natives

Small stream trout fishing is nothing new to for those of us that reside in the Appalachians, but throwing small hoppers to the often overshadowed Bonneville and Bear River Cutthroat creates a whole new appreciation for native trout in their native ranges.

Jacob EanesAugust 2, 2021cutthroat, cutthroat slam, bear river cutthroat, bonneville cutthroat, utah cutthroat slam, bluelining, trout, blue line flies, blue line co, western native fish, native fish coalitionComment

BroodX Buffet

The highly anticipated 17 year Cicadas known as BroodX are finally here. Over the past couple weeks we have dedicated ourselves to searching the shorelines for cruising carp in search of an easy meal. To say the fishing is lights out would be an understatement

Jacob EanesJune 10, 2021carp, carp on fly, fly fishing, fly fishing carp, common carp, broodx, cicada, broodx cicada, carp cicada, fly tying cicada, tall tails fly fishingComment

Shoal Searching

Shoal bass, a little-known (outside of Georgia and Alabama) black bass species features heavily on this side trip from our sojourn to the Okefenokee Swamp. Unlike the stagnant, black waters of the sometimes claustrophobic swamp though, the Flint river and its tributaries are wide open and feature very clear, fast moving water that Shoal bass call home

Jacob EanesMay 28, 2021shoal bass, fly fishing, fly fishing shoal bass, flint river, black bass, bass slam, Georgia bass slam, shoal bass on flyComment

Cryptid Creatures

Featured in Southern Georgia Magazine - The Okefenokee Swamp is truly one of the most unique fisheries to exist in the United States. With two Jon boats and a few fly rods, we explore the interior of the swamp in search of various toothy critters.

Jacob EanesMay 12, 2021bowfin, mudfish, bowfin fly fishing, bowfin on fly, okefenokee, okefenokee swamp, Chain Pickerel, fly fishing okefenokee, fishing okefenokee Comment

Cooper City Canals

Love them or hate them, the exotic species that swim through south Florida’s waterways are undoubtedly a blast to catch. We met up with our friend Spencer to chase a variety of these species in the canals of Cooper City.

Jacob EanesApril 2, 2021fly fishing, peacock bass, bass, peacock bass fly fishing, cichlid, cichlid fly fishing, midas cichlid, oscar cichlid, snakehead, snakehead on fly, snakehead fly fishing, canal fishing, canal fly fishingComment

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