When I first started trout fishing, I was given an invaluable piece of advice: start with dry flies. Talk to any trout angler, and they’ll tell you that fishing with subsurface flies simply catches ...

"Here is my short list of must-have dry flies for brook trout. I carry many others, but few rise to the level of these." ...

You’re casting to a trout – or a spot where you think there should be a trout – and you can’t seem to get the drift right. Nine times out of ten, you can solve this problem by repositioning yourself.

River water temperatures are rising. Aquatic insect activity fluctuates daily with the rise and fall in water temperature. Along with that increase is a rise in trout attention. Mayflies and caddis ...

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 ...

These hacks from a seasoned trout guide will help you keep your dry flies floating all day, and convince more trout to take ...

Irresistible Adams — There are a multitude of Adams-style dry flies, and the Irresistible is the answer during rising river levels. The tightly packed and trimmed deer hair body gives this fly the ...

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 ...