We fly-fishers really look forward to the fall, with its cool weather and big trout. But when it arrives, it races by at breakneck speed, or at least that’s how it seems to me. Once the streams begin ...

In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.

Streamer flies can mimic a variety of forage, but none is more common than baitfish. Unlike dry flies that match floating insects, and nymphs that look like aquatic insects in their larval stages, ...

I’m not suggesting you drift a pair of dry flies through fast water or stained water. The double dry rig works best when fishing slow, clear water that offers the potential for rising fish – if you ...

Do you realize that wet fly fishing is the original method of fly fishing? It dates back to medieval times and wasn't supplanted by dry fly fishing until the 1850s. Nymph fishing didn't come along ...

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

Depending on where you live and who you talk to, you’ll find that fly fishermen have widely varying opinions on hitting the river in the dead of winter. For some it’s the greatest time year, with fair ...

Seasonal changes also play a role in determining which method is more effective. During colder months, when trout are less ...

A swung soft hackle or wet fly angled 45 degrees downstream is as classic in trout and salmon fishing as apple pie is to ...

To help pass a few long winter evenings in the past couple of months, I read once again several classic fly-fishing books that had greatly influenced me during my early years. Absorbing the familiar ...

A few days ago, the trout were rising to midges. I could go into the details of which river, water temperature, weather, and everything else that goes into a day of fly fishing, but for now it’s ...