Three years ago, I started fishing a lot more at night for trout, mostly because we had our second child and that was the best time to go without feeling guilty about leaving my wife at home all day. In the past three years, I have done quite a few trips, not only on my drift boat, but also wade fishing areas from State College to the Catskills. It will be interesting to see how much has changed when I look back on this article, but this is where I stand today.

Whichever rod I had in my hand was used for everything, streamers, dry flies, tight lining, or indicator fishing, it didn’t matter, that was the only rod I had. If I wanted to switch from streamers to dry flies, I’d make a few adjustments to the leaders if necessary, but that was about it. After taking the fly fishing class at Penn State during my undergrad years, I learned

I’m not sure why this topic frustrates me more than anything else, but it does. Perhaps it’s because people are searching for some top secret leader formula that will help them catch more fish. Or maybe it’s the angler that thinks he needs every measurement down to the sixteenth of an inch for it to work