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Expand Your Fly Fishing Arsenal There are plenty of trout anglers that only fish with dry flies and nymphs. They’re both great ways to catch trout, until they’re not.

Add Some Action When Nymphing Dead drifting a nymph is typically your best bet for catching trout – you want to make your fly move with the current as naturally as possible. That said, rainbows ...

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Whitesitt submitted documentation of his released catch to the Idaho Fish and Game, and the agency verified it has a catch-and-release state record for Westslope cutthroat trout, the IFG reported ...

Climate change puts a different spin on fly fishing for once-skeptical anglers Immersed in their environments, fly fishers have an all too close look at the effects of warming temperatures, making ...

They aggressively preyed on, and reduced, the lake’s migratory cutthroat trout. By 2007, the run of migratory cutthroat at one of the lake’s tributaries plummeted from 70,000 fish to around 500.

They were browns ranging from 8 to 15 inches. Trout native to swift streams typically don’t reach the bulky sizes that fish do in lakes with a more plentiful forage base.

John Waller, a fly-fisherman fighting stage 4 cancer, took to the waters of Crater Lake in search of trout that have been growing rapidly in size.