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Fly Fishing With My Boys Video

Video taken by Sean Wallentine Co-Owner of the Virtual Fly Guides. Sean, along with his sons Caleb and Joshua were able to get away and spend a day fly fishing. Take your kids fishing and create memories that will last a lifetime!

Virtual Fly Guides Magazine Volume #1

Click on the front page of the Virtual Fly Guides Magazine Volume 1 and turn through the pages of our first electronic magazine.

Open publication - Free publishing - More fishing

A Trout's 15 Seconds Of Fame

After releasing this Marble Fork of the Kaweah River rainbow, it appears that this trout wanted a little more camera time.

Fly Fishing Report, Shasta County, CA

Joshua Wallentine


My dad took me and my brother Caleb fly-fishing at a private lake here in northern California. My dad put us on some nice fish. The fish loved the black or green Woolly Buggers! I caught 4 all by myself. The biggest was 20 inches!

Fly Fishing Report, Shasta County, CA

Caleb Wallentine


My dad took me and my brother Joshua fly-fishing at a private lake here in northern California. My dad put us on some nice fish. I caught 4 all by myself. The biggest was 22 inches!

Fly Fishing Report, Shasta County, CA

July 30, 2011


Fished a private lake in Shasta County, CA with two of my boys, Caleb (10) and Joshua (9). We did great. I caught 5 fish between 17 and nearly 30 inches! The fish were most active when a Woolly Bugger was stripped along the bottom.


Submitted by: Sean Wallentine

Fly Fishing Report, Russian River, CA

Healdsburg, CA


South of Dry Creek tributary, on the Russian: Pools that are 3 to 5 feet, I have had good luck with light colored Cahill dry flies for half-pounder rainbows (basically small Steelhead around 13 inches).

I have had to let them drift on float line into the pools, and then let them sink down. About 8 strikes in 2 weekends, with 3 healthy fish.....all wild.

Best times were between 5 and 7 pm.

Tackle: 8 1/2 rod, 7 wt line with 8 ft leader. No strike indicator or sinker, and no floatant used on fly.


Greg L.

Fly Fishing Report From An Irish Angler

Co. Wicklow, Ireland.


A fish of rumour and conjecture became reality to me when I met by accident Denis O'Toole outside the Woodenbridge Hotel, Co. Wicklow. A man approaches me, "Are you Ashley Hayden who writes the angling column in the Wicklow People". "Yes I am", I reply. "My name is Denis O'Toole". Before he could utter another word I said, "So you're the man who caught this mythical sea trout". "That I am", said Denis, and after that it was like we had known each other all our lives.

To cut to the chase, rumour had abounded as to the capture of a great fish but nobody had seen the evidence. Denis, a professional fly dresser was holding his powder because he did not want the river being overrun. The time however had come to filter out the story, and I just happened to be in the right place at the right time. So in Denis's own words:

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER

I and a fishing partner had been fishing on the Avoca one evening; we had caught several small sea trout and released them, the fish showed in the pool above where I was fishing, before it was fully dark, so I didn't try him straight away.

I fished some other pools while I was waiting for darkness to fall, at this point I did not know it was a sea trout.

I had fished down one of the pools when my fishing partner walked up to me and I asked did he want to go home or stay?? He said he would fish the pool that I had just been at as he had just changed his fly's.

Then I went down to the pool where I seen the fish move (Lucky Boy) I put on a 1 1/2 inch aluminium tube with a salar single (with the barb squeezed down) and started at the head of the pool, on my 4th cast while stripping the fly back he hit it with a BANG!! and all hell broke loose, all I could see was white foam on the water through the inky darkness, I thought I hooked FREE WILLY, the fish's 1st run tore off 20 or more yards of line downstream and he made 3 other big runs after this.

He was lying in only 3ft of water when he took, in total the fight lasted 20mins. He was then carefully weighed & measured and released back to spawn and produce more 16lb’ers.

I am a professional fly dresser and live locally, the tube fly he took was one of my own patterns called the Lava Tale, far too many big fish today end up in pictures with gill tags in them.


Tight Lines, Denis O' Toole.

Fly Fishing Report, Bell Meadow, CA

July 30, 2011
Clavey River, CA


Went flyfishing with my family to Bell meadow, to the headwaters of the Clavey River. We fished for three hours before heading out. We caught three rainbows and one brook trout. The flies used were Stimulators and Hare's Ear Nymphes. I caught two rainbows, my dad one rainbow and the brookie went to my mom.


Submitted by: Jon H.

More Family Fishing Days Part 2

Caleb Wallentine


I fished with my family in a stream next to Highway 120 near the Tioga Pass resort. I caught this Rainbow Trout on on a Red Copper John.

More Family Fishing Days Part 1

Joshua Wallentine


I fished with my family in a stream along Highway 120 near the Tioga Pass Resort. I caught this nice Rainbow Trout on a streamer my dad told me was certain to get us a fish. It did!