Long Beach Casting Club

Skip Morris has eleven books out on fly fishing and fly tying and pens regular columns for “Flyfisherman”, “Flyfishing and Tying Journal”, and “Salmon Trout Steelheader “magazines. He is also our speaker for the month of November. His topic will be “Fishing the Surface of a Trout Lake”

Trout lakes are sadly misunderstood—and they represent a whole world of fly fishing that too many anglers, either through unfamiliarity or uncertainty, are missing. Skip is well versed on this topic as he co-authored Fly Fishing Trout Lakes with Brian Chan in 1999. This program leads you patiently by the hand and guides you through the techniques, tackle, and flies that take trout feeding in the top layer of a lake. Here you will learn about lake entomology, the intricacies of chasing and catching path-rising trout, when to expect surface feeding on chironomids, and a great deal more. Along with ideas and images that entertain.

Skip developed a fly which combines the best of the pheasant tail and the hare’s ear and calls it the Skip Nymph (for a description google “skip morris”). Skip Morris, a renowned author and fly tier, has also written on many subjects near and dear to our hearts most notably: Dry Flys, and for the rest of you: nymphs, bass bugs, foam bodies, etc. plus a book on custom graphite rods.

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