It’s that time of the year when wet fly fishing for trout is at itsbest. Somehow it’s in between the earlier season of trout fishing with small streamers, nymphs and muddlers and the dry fly fishing ...

Labor Day was a learning day for me. Dave and Emily Whitlock had contacted me about fishing the Bighorn River for a day. I let them know that I had Sept. 6 and 7 open and would love to get together, ...

Do you realize that wet fly fishing is the original method of fly fishing? It dates back to medieval times and wasn't supplanted by dry fly fishing until the 1850s. Nymph fishing didn't come along ...

Most people think of trout fishing as synonymous with fly fishing. Indeed fly fishing is usually the most skillful and enjoyable approach and usually the most effective, too. But as I started to write ...

Fly fishing for trout on a stream or river could be addictive. The ability of an angler to try and present an imitation fly that looks very much like a natural in the current and allow it to move in ...

Fly fishing in November for recently stocked trout or trying your luck on your favorite catch-and-return trout stream can be a gratifying way to spend a few hours on a brisk fall day. Fall is one of ...

OF THE MANY TYPES of anglers, fly fishermen and women share a reputation for those most obsessed with their appearance. From the top of their heads, where fancy hats perch, to the bottoms of their ...

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave to me: a brown trout in a cedar tree. Translation: my wife signed off on a pre-Christmas streamer trip. I love winter fly fishing for trout. It’s ...

Wednesday evening I was relaxing on the bench overlooking the Beaver pool on “The Stretch” near Blakeslee in Monroe County. I had just cleaned a nice creel of trout (I hate the term “mess of trout”) ...

When I first started trout fishing, I was given an invaluable piece of advice: start with dry flies. Talk to any trout angler, and they’ll tell you that fishing with subsurface flies simply catches ...