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Black Hills Fishing Report 9/1/2017

September 01, 2017 • Ryan Gabert • Black Hills • Black Hills Fishing • black hills fishing report • Black Hills Fishing Reports • black hills fly fishing • black hills trout fishing • Fishing Report • Rapid Creek • spearfish creek • trout fishing • trout flies • Uncategorized

We’re going to warm up for a few days, but the fishing continues to be solid and will only get better with the shorter days and cooler temps forecasted for next week. The big three – Rapid, Castle, and Spearfish are still your best bets, but some of the smaller streams are starting to fish consistently well also.

Rapid Creek near Silver City is fishing alright, and is better the further up you hike. Dry-dropper rigs will get the job done, with Peacock Jigs and various other tungsten patterns in size 16-18 working well. The fishing near Black Fox is...

Dakota Angler Custom Flies

April 29, 2016 • Ryan Gabert • Black Hills Fishing • black hills fly fishing • black hills trout fishing • dry fly • Fly Fishing • fly tying • Nymphs • trout flies • Tying trout flies • Uncategorized

When we’re all out guiding every day in the summer, we’re always experimenting with dozens of different flies that are fresh off our vises. After a few weeks or months, a few of them make their way to the top of the pile and earn more or less permanent spots in our fly boxes. We’ve been […]

Fly Tying Blog – Ryan’s Winter Tying

January 15, 2016 • Ryan Gabert • Black Hills Fishing • dry fly • fly tying • Mayflies • Mayfly Hatches • trout flies • Tying trout flies • Uncategorized

This is the time of year that I start restocking my boxes for the summer, but I often get sidetracked by tying flies for nearly immediate use. My usual MO is to decide I’m going to go fishing, and sit down and tie a frantic half dozen of this or that, even though I probably have […]

Lower Water & Terrestrials! Black Hills Fly Fishing

September 02, 2015 • Ryan Gabert • Black Hills • Black Hills Fishing • Black Hills Fishing Reports • black hills fly fishing • fishing • Fishing Report • fishing reports • Fly Fishing • hopper • South Dakota • trout flies

The weather is hot, but the fish don’t seem to mind! The water flows on Rapid Creek have dropped to 125 cfs, which is a nice improvement. 150 was fine, but the extra 25 cfs missing makes the fish considerably more likely to come up to the surface. There are a zillion hoppers around, especially in the basin! […]

New Fly Tying Videos

May 21, 2015 • Hans • Black Hills Fishing • dries • flies • fly tying • Fly Tying Video • Nymphs • trout flies • videos

Here’s a bunch of new fly tying videos. We have had these filmed for a while, but haven’t had a chance to publish them yet. We will get materials lists and each video categorized soon. In the mean time check out the latest and greatest. We are always working on new ideas for videos, however […]