S.K.S Adventures

Raise your hand if this has ever happened to you: striped bass are crashing on a school of sand eels or silversides. The bait is thick...

Part flatwing, part soft hackle, and part bucktail, the Soft Hackle Flatwing is a favorite in my spring run rotation. The ingenious mix...

Simple, sparse, and small, the Mini Bondorew Bucktail is an impressionist fly that looks like everything and nothing. Its sparseness...

The Rhode Island state bird is the Rhode Island Red Hen. The Rhode Island state flower is the Common Blue Violet. If Rhode Island was to...

When the herring run through the East Bay the fishing can be magical, if you have flies that accurately mimic the size, silhouette,...

Invented by Steve Culton, the Bombardier is a classic big fish fly. It's dark pallet lends itself to night time fishing and its...

This fly was born out of a night of frustration in Bristol, Rhode Island. Bass were sipping silversides all around me and yet I could not...

Nearly all of my 30" + Striped Bass have been caught on this fly: an all black Big Eelie. The Big Eelie was originally created by Ken...