Every time I fish a brook trout stream, I’m reminded why I have such a soft spot for them. I’m a sucker for dry fly eats, and a brook trout hits a dry fly like no other. The best thing about them?

ASHEVILLE - It’s not a large fish, the brook trout, sometimes called a “brookie” or a speckled trout. A respectable catch, one worthy of a photograph, is about the width of a standard piece of ...

September is — to my way of thinking — one of the best fly-fishing months of the year. But then I’m one of those small stream, brook trout junkies who gets his jollies sneaking around autumn-colored ...

If you get the chance to fish for native brook trout in their home waters, don't pass it up. There’s a lot to like about brook trout – even if they're technically a char, not a trout. They sport ...

Great Smoky Mountains — Years of hard work by biologists and volunteers in the Great Smoky Mountains could lure even more anglers to the national park in 2018. The park reintroduced and restored ...

Joe Sprys, his son, Dan, and I were lazily scouting the high country for small stream trout. We drove through Georgetown and then meandered around in the Guanella Pass corridor. Along the way we ...

ALL-STAR CAST: Matt Barnes, a guide for Asheville Fly Fishing Co., fishes in the Watauga River. Photo by Emma Johnson “For the native trout,” Chamberlain wrote, “grand as he is, does not take kindly ...

One day, my friend Pete Fleischman was driving in the sand country of central Wisconsin when a couple of Huck Finn look-alikes popped out of the trees. They were carrying fishing rods and something ...

Looking at the stretch of Michigan’s Jordan River I was wading, it was tough to believe it was teeming with wild brook trout. The shallow, ultraclear flow wasn’t very wide. It was fully lit by the ...

Can fly fishing for brook trout in cold, clear Northeastern Minnesota streams save the world from hatred and prejudice? Not likely. But maybe it can save a soul. That’s what Geoff Vukelich said it did ...