Reviews were mixed from the anglers I spoke to. Some caught them on big, bushy dry flies, others not at all. The reports held true that the salmonflies were here but cool weather and ...

We were trout fishing in Smoky Mountain National Park when we gave up on our fly rods and tried fishing live bait.

As the story goes, Byford drew inspiration from patterns coming out of New Zealand ... or lake-run brown trout, these flies do, in fact, mimic a primary food source, as the natural eggs of ...

Since fish are cold blooded, water temperatures play a big part in their behavior. Trout prefer water that is between 56 and 64 degrees, which holds more oxygen. Bass and ...

Gamefish are predators and predators are opportunistic, so if it looks like food and is easy to get, they will probably go ...

I was talking to my friend Gary Bush and he had gotten back from a fishing trip up to his camp near Tupper Lake. The fishing was great, but the black flies won out and he ...

This is the first in a series of "little things that are a big deal" columns that Post Bulletin Outdoors columnist John Weiss ...

A master rod builder shares the tools, skills, and deeper rewards of a more deliberate—and satisfying—way to fish ...

Yeah, so trout, this time of year ... Today, we kind of caught fish on a wide variety of flies. Definitely our hottest patterns seem to be kind of black and copper today. We did get some fish ...

Lose a few $3 flies to tree branches, and you’ll learn to cast accurately real quick. Small stream trout typically live ... whole host of different current patterns. Wide, slow-moving rivers ...

When the fishing is slow, sometimes my buddies and I prefer to find frogs, spring lizards, worms, hellgrammites, and more.