Angus Drummond specializes in floating fly fishers down the Lower Colorado River. (Ed Engle/Courtesy photo) We then went to dry fly dropper rigs and fished the foam lines near the banks.

No other fly, Lyons explained, gets the river’s large fish feeding with such reckless abandon. By 3 p.m., the reddish brown flies, less than an inch in length, arrived above the water.

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This fall, we spent the day with John N. Maclean—son of Norman Maclean, author of A River Runs Through It—at his family's cabin to talk writing, Hemingway, and fishing.

Fly-fishing is dumb. Change my mind. On the verge of quitting, the author enlists the help of Tom Rosenbauer, the most famous fly fisherman in the country, to see if he might actually catch a fish.