Fly Fishing Articles:
Tips, Techniques, and Strategies
to Improve Your Success
A fresh perspective through the eyes of an expert...
Here is a mix of fly fishing articles—on techniques, strategies, rivers and other waters—Skip has published with a variety of fly-fishing and outdoor magazines over the past 20-some years.
You'll find all sorts of great information here.
From Attractor Flies for Big Trout, to Salmon in the Salt
Want to find out what it feels like to hook one wild-fighting salmon after another off the Washington Coast, and how to make that happen?
Or perhaps you'd like to know when and where to fish big attractor dry flies for big trout? We'll explore all this, and more.
Fly-Fishing Article Library
The links at the bottom of this page will take you to the articles by Skip(and a few written by Carol). From simple skills to cutting-edge techniques, you'll find new ways to catch more fish among these pages.
If you read about this sport to learn, to catch more fish, or just for fun, enjoy exploring what we offer here.
Tactics for Bass
Bass Back in the Salad
The Bass-Bluegill Lap
The Bass-Bluegill Lap Flies
Tactics for Trout
Bring the Big Attractor Dry Flies, Part 1
Bring the Big Attractor Dry Flies, Part 2
Neah Bay Salmon, Way Out West
Montana Hoppers: The Princess and the Brute
Standard Indicator Nymph Fishing Part 1
Standard Indicator Nymph Fishing Part 2
Ten Ways to Improve Your Nymph Fishing
The Truth About Chironomids Part One
The Truth About Chironomids Part Two
The Truth About Chironomids Part Three
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*ANNOUNCEMENT: Free, Live Fly Tying Clinic with Skip*
Skip Morris, author of many, many fly-tying articles and several fly-tying books (winner of the Fly Tyer magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award), will share what he's learned over decades about how to make neat, tough parachute hackles and equally neat and durable yarn and hair wings on dry flies in a live presentation. It's free and it happens on October 31, Halloween, at noon Pacific Standard Time. Here's the link so you can attend:
©Carol Ann Morris
Click here to access Skip's free fly tying clinic at the Wet Fly Swing Bootcamp for Trout Anglers...
Click here to hear Carol's interview on AskAboutFlyFishing.com...
Click here to hear Carol's interview with Christian Bacasa on the Fly Fishing Insider Podcast...
*ANNOUNCEMENT: Free, Live Fly Tying Clinic with Skip*
Skip Morris, author of many, many fly-tying articles and several fly-tying books (winner of the Fly Tyer magazine's Lifetime Achievement Award), will share what he's learned over decades about how to make neat, tough parachute hackles and equally neat and durable yarn and hair wings on dry flies in a live presentation. It's free and it happens on October 31, Halloween, at noon Pacific Standard Time. Here's the link so you can attend:
©Carol Ann Morris
Click here to access Skip's free fly tying clinic at the Wet Fly Swing Bootcamp for Trout Anglers...
Skip's latest books:
New Fly Fishing Essay Book Release, July 2026:
Imposters: The Flies We Fish and the Fish They Catch is on Amazon...
Click here: Imposters...
Morris & Chan on Fly Fishing Trout Lakes is on Amazon as an e-book...
Morris & Chan on Fly Fishing Trout Lakes
Click here: Morris & Chan on Fly Fishing Trout Lakes e-book...
Top 12 Dry Flies for Trout Streams: How, When, and Where to Fish Them, is on Amazon as an e-book...Click on the links below...
Top 12 Dry Flies for Trout Streams: How, When, and Where to Fish Them
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Top 12 Nymphs for Trout Streams: How, When, and Where to Fish Them, 2nd Edition, is an e-book and a paperback.
Top 12 Nymphs for Trout Streams: How, When, and Where to Fish Them (2nd Edition)
Click here for more info: Top 12 Nymphs for Trout Streams: How, When, and Where to Fish Them (2nd Edition)
Click here for more info: Skip's e-book of fly fishing essays (chronicling 50 years of adventure on the water)
500 Trout Streams...
500 Trout Streams...
365 Fly Fishing Tips for Trout, Bass, and Panfish
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365 Tips for Trout, Bass, and Panfish...
365 Tips for Trout, Bass, and Panfish...
Print Skip's chart for FREE:
Skip Morris's Trout-Fly Proportion Chart
Go to Skip Morris's Trout Fly Proportion Chart
Skip's Predator is available to buy...
Skip's ultra-popular Predator—a hit fly for bluegills, other panfishes, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, and trout—is being tied commercially.
The Predator
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Learn to Tie Skip's Predator
Do you want to tie the Predator?
Tying the Predator
Skip shows you how to tie it on his YouTube Channel link, listed below:
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