If you’re not enticing many eats, give your nymph rig a little ... stint guiding anglers on trout streams evolved into a budding career writing about all things fly fishing.

Can you often clean up on a small stream with a dry dropper rig? For sure. But there’s no one right way to fool a trout. Dry fly fishing is as good as it gets – throw two of them and double ...

The modern-day trout angler has a vast array of fly rods to choose from ... fishing bigger rivers from a drift boat or a raft. I made a point to fish all kinds of different rigs with these rods. I ...

A trout Spey rig can also work in hopper/dropper situations ... There is no one-size-fits-all approach to fly fishing. But the versatility and effectiveness of fishing with a micro/trout Spey ...

I also make a point to size down on my fly rig when I trout fish in the winter. If I normally fish a river with 4X tippet, I’ll usually drop down to 5X. I think the light and shadow contrast on ...

Micah Crider, Driftless native Samuel Moore Nationally, “fly fishing and “trout” are virtually synonymous under the ... but getting a trout to slam a large piece of plastic or metal from a spinning ...

My favorite time to bird-watch is when I am fly fishing on a trout stream. It is not surprising to see birds there as some have the same diet as trout — mayflies and other aquatic insects. Trout eat ...

If a brook trout spans the length of that same piece of paper, it’s a trophy-sized prize. But nothing causes local anglers to wax poetic quite like a high mountain stream with a fly-fishing ...

But it was only recently that I learned you could fish from its edges for trout ... I jumped on a reservation like a trout smashing a dry fly. I rallied my friends Bruce Couch and Gary Calicott ...

Two-fly nymph rigs and dry dropper rigs can be found ... clear water that offers the potential for rising fish – if you see trout rising, even better. Say I’m fishing a small stream and ...