Material is another big thing. The more material you have on a fly that’s going subsurface, the longer its going to take to sink, even if you have a lot of weight, because there’s so much resistance within that material to get down. So a lot of my flies might have a bunch of different materials, because I want it to move right, I want it to look right, and I want it to be able to get unhooked or hook a fish pretty easy, but there’s not a lot of bulk.
Jack Villwock
In this episode we WadeOutThere for Part Two of our conversation with Jake Villwock, from Carlisle, PA. Jake grew up in Maryland, on an island in the Chesapeake Bay surrounded by fishing. His father was a commercial fisherman and professional bass fisherman.
In college, Jake learned early on that he wanted a career in the outdoors and fishing. After working a summer job at a sport and fly fishing lodge in Alaska, he moved to Pennsylvania to pursue his passion for fishing as a guide. Jake soon fell in love with the solitude and exploration of the state’s many smallmouth bass fisheries.
He has now been guiding smallmouth in Pennsylvania for over twelve years, is the author of the book “Smallmouth Bass Flies – Top to Bottom”, and owns and operates his own outfitter Relentless Fly Fishing.
In Part Two of our discussion, Jake explains his problem solving process for designing smallmouth bass flies and tips and techniques for how to present them in Pennsylvania’s miles of smallmouth water. Jake also talks about fishing frog flies for trout.
“Most of the eats that we have with streamers, or baitfish patterns, is at the very beginning or end of that pause. It’s like as soon as it stops, they eat it. Or as soon as it’s about to go, they eat it. So that pause is a huge thing for that column that you’re fishing. “
Jake Villwock
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Jason
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