Don't let a lack of knowledge stop you. These flies consistently catch trout, no matter the hatch or your fly fishing skill level. Like gems in the water. / photo by Ken Baldwin If it played out like ...

This year might be offering the best opportunity for summer trout fishing in recent memory. Last year, lack of rainfall from late June until well into November reduced most streams to brutally low ...

When I fish a trout river that’s new to me, I often stop into a local fly shop to pick up a few dry flies. Every river has its own special patterns, and I’m a sucker for these. I thought it was a ...

While some states still have formal trout openers, most allow year-round fishing so anglers can get out there even during the depths of winter. Although trout need cold water to survive, when water ...

For some fly fishers, catching a trout on a small dry fly is the penultimate experience. Fishing a size 20 or smaller dry fly to a finicky trout is such a challenge that there are some anglers who ...

Tricos, the smallest mayfly anglers imitate, are small, fleeting and often misunderstood. There seems to be only two choices: like them or dislike them. The only people indifferent about Tricos are ...

A trophy brown trout taken on the Delware River with a flying ant pattern. I’ll fess up. Nothing is more blood-pressure raising to me than pinning a big trout on an itty-bitty dry fly. Scoring the ...

If there’s anything more rewarding than catching a fish on a fly tied with your own two hands, it is doing so with fly tying material salvaged from game animals you’ve harvested afield. In ...

If it played out like it does in books and magazines, we would walk up to the creek or river, have a look at the water, sit ...