Fall is here and with it brings a host of fantastic fishing opportunities!  Giant Chinook Salmon, Coho, Monster Brown trout and Steelhead are available to the fall and winter angler.  This is the time of  year that is most overlooked by fly anglers yet offers the best chance at the biggest brown or rainbow of your life.  Rivers like the Oconto, Peshtigo and Menom. will fish fantastic all winter long.  Last winter was by far the best big brown fishing the shop has had in years.  These fish can be caught fishing eggs and nymphs or our preferred method of swinging large flies deep and slow.  Fly patterns change from the realistic to the outrageous.  Fall is the time to shake these fish up with bright and gaudy patterns.  This is why we have chosen Charlies Black Eye Tube for our fly of the month.  Enjoy the pattern and call the shop with any quetions.

 The preferred hook for this fly (and other tubes) is a short-shank offset bend hook, such as the Gamakatsu Octopus in sizes 1 and 2.  Short-shank hooks have a very good hook-up-to-land ratio compared to other more traditional steelhead bends. Tie the hook on a loop knot and pull the knot into the rubber tubing.This fly is almost always fished on a sink tip with the length and sink rate of the tip dictated by the speed and depth of the run.  Run 3-4 ft of 10# Maxima off the end of the sink tip.  Fish the fly using a downstream swing.