For fly rodders hang a chironimid pattern, balanced leech or small nymph such as a pheasant tail nymph or hares ear under an indicator also in shallow water.

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I have a new favorite nymph pattern that I have dubbed — pun intended — Dan’s Killer Rubber Leg Nymph. For those of you unfamiliar with fly tying terminology, dubbing ...

As with indicator nymphing, I’ll typically fish a two-fly nymph rig. It’s particularly important to get your flies down quickly when tight line nymphing, so using a beadhead nymph as your ...

Get rid of the strike indicator and enjoy nymph fishing. Tight line nymphing is an underrated, very effective fly fishing method for trout.

Nymph fishing is real good and dry fly fishing has been pretty decent with BWOs late in the day. The weather should be nicer by the weekend, and dry fly fishing will be back on target.

You can use the base pattern of an Adams fly to tie a very common fly in the spring called the Blue-Winged Olive, which attracts lots of fish. You can even give these patterns a little parachute, a ...

The trout-approved Rubber Legs fly. / Photo by Jasper Taback I like to fish dry flies. It’s not that I dislike nymph fishing, but there’s something truly special about watching a trout rise to ...

It works best when fished in a multi-nymph rig, either with another Euro-style nymph or a more impressionistic pattern like a Hare’s Ear or Pat’s Rubberlegs.