PARK RAPIDS, Minn. -- Even the dreadfully novice fly angler has a chance at landing a jaw-dropping brown trout for about 10 days of June on the Straight River. “You don't have to be skilled at ...

When it's Mayfly time on our English Chalk Streams it can be too easy to catch a good Trout - but they soon learn! Here's Chris Sandford's step-by-step guide to the Under Hackle Mayfly - which ...

Whatever the reason, the annual "rise" of the mayfly provides a tasty morsel for many a waiting trout. The abundance, as Walton says, makes the fish "more bold and lusty" than they normally are ...

The mayfly is up, trout are biting and guesthouse beds are filling for miles around the western lakes, writes Lorna Siggins in… The mayfly is up, trout are biting and guesthouse beds are filling ...

The river was full to the brim after the recent rain, but, due to the cold, barely a mayfly had been spotted. It was like arriving at a party on the wrong date. I fished the morning with hawthorn and ...