by Andrew Marr | Mar 26, 2024 | Interviews, Tactics, tricks and tips, Video
Join Chris Krysciak from Drift Outfitter Toronto as he host Matt Martin from Smooth River Guiding and Andrew Marr from pikeonthefly.com. Together the 3 of them discuss everything fly fishing for pike, give advice on locations, flies and more while taking questions...
by Andrew Marr | Oct 30, 2023 | Tactics, tricks and tips, Tales from the guide side
By Andrew Marr Anyone who has ever wanted to instantly turn a 4-piece fly rod into a 5 or more piece rod, here are a few easy ways to go about it! The Superman hook set: Much like the man in steel leaping over a tall building, the superman hookset requires lift off!...
by Andrew Marr | Oct 30, 2023 | Flies, Tactics, tricks and tips, Tales from the guide side
By Andrew Marr Don’t over look small flies in your quest for a BIG pike! During the filming for the Award winning short film, “Common Thread”, my long-time guest and star of the film, Mary, fished for 12 days straight. A 70 plus year old great...
by Andrew Marr | Apr 6, 2023 | Tactics, tricks and tips, Tales from the guide side
By Phil Wiebe Dog days of summer? Bring it on! There are plenty of persistent “rules of thumb” and ‘old wives tales’ in the fishing world, but one of the most inaccurate may involve the behavior’s of Northern Pike during the warm summer...
by Andrew Marr | Mar 11, 2023 | Tactics, tricks and tips
Any guest who has fly fished from the bow of my guide boat has heard me say the phrase, “if you can’t see what is behind your fly, don’t take it out of the water!” It a far too is common practice for fly anglers using pike streamers to make a...
by Andrew Marr | Mar 2, 2023 | Tactics, tricks and tips, Tales from the guide side
A reminder to slow down, take a breath, be patient, and fish your cast, wherever it lands. We are all guilty of it, we see a pike, determine which way it’s facing, load up the rod and launch a cast, intending to land the fly right in front of its snout. But...
