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Announcing: New Smallmouth Bass Fly Fishing Video

This winter, between fly shows and speaking engagements, we're working on something very exciting -- a brand new feature-length video on fly fishing for smallmouth! After the tremendous success of the book "Smallmouth Fly Fishing," many of you have been asking us to make a fly fishing video.

We listened.

For the last 2 fishing seasons we've been filming scenes for a new fly fishing video. Now we have enough top-notch footage to make a whole Hollywood movie, and we're busy making it into a blockbuster DVD.

This new DVD will show smallmouth bass fly fishing like you've never seen it before!

Dan Johnson caught this fish using
the Float'n'Fly technique shown in
the upcoming video

Besides spectacularly beautiful fly fishing scenes with plenty of fish-catching action, you'll see how your fly performs underwater, how to use your rod tip to animate the fly, how to use the line belly to work your fly and why you must use a strike indicator for warmwater fly fishing. You'll see live-action fish strikes in slow motion, showing exactly how your indicator moves when the fish hits.

Live on the water with Tim Holschlag, you'll learn exactly how to do the Cray fish Hop (the best subsurface technique ever invented). You'll find out why and when smallmouth take topwaters, and see the 3 best topwater retrieves. You'll see our simple 2-leader system, and watch close-ups of Tim tying the only 2 knots you need to know.

Tim gives you casting instruction, too, showing you the simple secret to cast big smallmouth bass flies easily. Plus, we'll show you how to catch the biggest smallies you've ever seen, by using an amazing technique that hardly any fly fishers know about - the Float'n'Fly.

This new video is solid instruction, not merely entertainment. It shows you everything you need to know to fly fish for smallmouth bass.

Do you catch several good-sized smallmouth every time out? You can, with the skills you'll learn from this video!

Stay tuned for more news about this exciting project!

Indianapolis Show Report

Tim Holschlag was the keynote speaker at the Indiana on the Fly show in Indianapolis on Saturday, January 7, 2012. In its 5th year, "Indiana on the Fly" is noted for providing an exciting day filled with great seminars, fly tying demonstrations, casting tips, etc. And, this year was no exception.

Tim unveiled his all-new seminar, "Hop, Pop and Twitch--The Three Top Techniques for Smallmouth" to an overwhelming and enthusiastic crowd. The presentation featured video clips from his upcoming fly fishing DVD "Smallmouth on the Fly: Cutting-Edge Fly Fishing Techniques for Smallmouth Bass", which will be released later this year.

We are also happy to report that numerous smallmouth bass fans stopped by the Smallmouth Fly Angler booth not only to talk smallmouth bass on the fly, but also check out our popular line of custom-tied flies, the new Smallmouth Stream Bag, and other smallmouth bass fishing gear on display. In all, it was a very busy and exciting day for the Smallmouth Fly Angler staff.

Tim Holschlag was the featured speaker at the original show in 2008, the first-ever fly fishing show in Indiana. That year, 1,400 smallmouth fans mobbed the show to hear Tim, overwhelming the show organizers (they had booked space for an expected turnout of only about 500). Last year 1,112 people came to see featured speakers Tim Holschlag and Joe Humphries. Tim's talk was the most popular of the show, bringing in smallmouth bass fans from far and wide.

If you made it out to see us, thanks for coming out and we hope you enjoyed the show. If you missed "Indiana on Fly" be sure to mark it on your calendar and make it next year. We will have another indepth and informative presentation, and look forward to meeting more of the smallmouth bass fanatics out there.

Smallmouth Bass in South Africa

Tim on the Groot River
in South Africa

Tim Holschlag has "gone fishing" again, this time in South Africa! He spent 3 weeks in South Africa during November, on a cross-country tour fishing for a variety of species including smallmouth bass, a non-native fish there. South Africa is about the only place outside of North America that has smallmouth bass, and Tim will fish wherever smallies swim!

Fly fishers in South Africa use Tim Holschlag's book, "Smallmouth Fly Fishing" as a manual for how to catch smallies (He has also been quoted in The Complete Fly Fisher magazine there). So Holschlag was invited to take a fly-fishing tour of their country. Besides smallmouth bass, Tim fished for a variety of other species, in both fresh and salt water, with South Africa's top fly-fishing experts. This other angling included catching enormously powerful Yellowfish in the Vaal River and Rainbow Trout in remote mountain streams.

While in South Africa, Tim Holschlag also gave presentations at the Fly Tiers Guild in Johannesburg and the Cape Piscatorial Society (Cape Town) on "Warmwater Fly Fishing in North America."

Read Tim's "Smallmouth Safari"
article and View the Slide Show