Fishing Report August 29th 2025
Black Hills Fly Fishing Report – August 29, 2025 Labor Day Weekend Edition Labor Day weekend is here! The Rally is behind us, traffic is back to normal, and we’ve...
Hans Stephenson |
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Fishing Report August 29th 2025
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Ryan's Crawl Daddy Crayfish
Crayfish are a very important part of the diet of warmwater fish, and this pattern works great for fish feeding on them! Largemouth, Smallies, Walleyes, and Carp all can't resist...
Ryan Gabert |
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Fly Tying Video - Ryan's Jig Crawfish
Crayfish are in integral part of the diet of bass, walleye, and various other warmwater species. We've caught some of our biggest bass to date on flies like this, and...
Ryan Gabert |
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Black Hills Fishing Report - 3/1/2017
Fishing throughout the Black Hills continues to be great, and the streams are all pretty vacant for the most part. This time of year offers some of our favorite fishing,...
Ryan Gabert |
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Fly Fishing Film Tour Rapid City! March 8, 2017
The Fly Fishing Film Tour returns to Rapid City this March! We've been getting a lot of questions about when and if the film tour is coming back, and we...
Ryan Gabert |
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EP Ascension Bay Mantis
In this video, Hans ties the EP Ascension Bay Mantis. This was one of their most effective flies for permit last year in Mexico - you should definitely have a...
Ryan Gabert |
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Black Hills Fishing Report - 1/21/2017
It's finally been above freezing for the last few days, and the fishing has been fantastic! The warmer weather has brought quite a few fish to the surface most days,...
Ryan Gabert |
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Saturday Morning Fly Tying Demos
We're going to start doing free fly tying demos on Saturday mornings over the next few weeks, and we've got a few scheduled for the coming weeks. We'll be down...
Ryan Gabert |
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Fly Tying with Ryan - Tungsten Hot Head Pine Squirrel Leech
Ryan shows you how to tie a simple but incredibly effective pattern, the Hot Head Pine Squirrel Leech. This is one of our go to patterns on the North Platte...
Ryan Gabert |
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Fly Tying with Dave - Bug Gut Scud
&t=88s Dave Gamet ties his Bug Gut Scud, which incorporates a bit of a different technique to form the legs than a traditional scud pattern. This fly is effective anywhere...
Ryan Gabert |
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Fly Tying with Ryan - Clouser Minnow
&t=2s The Clouser Minnow is easily one of the most popular warmwater fly patterns ever tied, and for good reason - it catches fish in just about every situation! This...
Ryan Gabert |
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Fly Tying With David Gamet - Jawbreaker Midge
In this video Dave Gamet ties his Jawbreaker Midge. This is a fantastic pattern twelve months a year, but it seems especially effective in the winter. We're not really sure...
Ryan Gabert |
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Black Hills Fishing Report - 12/20/2016
It's been quite some time since our last fishing report, and we apologize for that. The weather hasn't been very conducive to fly fishing to say the least, with the...
Ryan Gabert |
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Flexmaster Streamer
&t=27s Flexmaster Streamer Materials Ryan ties his Flexmaster Streamer, which uses some of the new materials we have in the shop from Hareline Dubbin. This fly is equally effective on...
Ryan Gabert |
