 Fly Fishing
TROUT-
We specialize in fly fishing the streams of Western Maryland, including Frederick, Washington, Allegheny, and Garrett counties. Our home waters are Owens and Hunting Creeks in Frederick County and Beaver and Antietam Creeks in Washington County. While we fish these streams year round, April-June is our favorite time to take clients to these streams. All these streams offer great fly fishing opportunity and all of them give an angler a chance at trout beyond five pounds.
Fly fishing can be learned in a day or it can be studied for a lifetime. We try to focus on teaching on our guided trips. For some clients, that could mean a morning in the classroom, followed by an afternoon on the stream. For others, with more fly fishing experience, it could mean that we share some of our favorite fishing spots and the top fly patterns at those spots. We cherish the days when we take a new flyfisher out on the stream and help them catch their first flyrod trout. The streams of Washington and Frederick County offer great opportunities for the beginner or advanced flyfisher.
We are very fortunate to have some of the best flyfishing in the East, right here in Maryland. The North Branch of the Potomac and the Casselman River are the crown jewels of Maryland flyfishing for trout. Tens of thousands of trout are stocked in these waters, many of them being large breeder fish. Beyond that, the North Branch has natural reproduction and some of the prettiest trout anywhere. The fishing can be very easy or extremely difficult, depending on stocking, water flows, etc. Techniques vary from nymphing small caddis to ripping big streamers. The 5-8 pound browns and rainbows in the North Branch won’t think twice about attacking a 6 inch streamer.
 
OTHER SPECIES -
Every fish that swims can be caught on fly tackle; it’s just that some are easier than others. For those anglers who want to try something other than trout, we have some exciting options:
- Join us in June-September as we cast large nymph patterns to 8-25 pound carp in the slow waters of the Potomac in Washington County.
- Join us in May-July as we Kayak and flyfish Greenbrier Lake for many species. It is lots of fun to try to catch trout, bluegill, largemouth bass, and crappie all in the same day and all on a flyrod. Most days, we can manage to catch all four.
Other days, we are having so much fun on one species or another that we never get around to fishing for them all. It is not uncommon to catch 20-40 fish on these outings.
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- Join us in July-August for the famous White Miller hatch on the Potomac River. This is a half day wading trip that involves 3-4 hours of streamer fishing for smallmouth, followed by an hour of evening fishing White Miller flys to rising smallmouth.
At times, this can be frustrating fishing because there are so many flys on the water, and so many fish feeding on the surface, that it is hard to understand how a fish could pick your fly out of the thousands of others. Generally, our catch rates are low on these trips, but if you have never experienced the White Miller hatch, this is an experience you should not miss. We fish two miles of the Potomac that have very prolific hatches and are easy to wade.
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