Successful nymphing starts with your setup. A two-fly nymph rig is often the way to go – it allows you to cover a wider range of the water column, and it adds variety to your patterns. I’ll typically ...

guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

Using a nymph as a dropper with a dry fly makes all the sense in the world, and I’ve seen it recommended many times — and yet I’ve only tried it occasionally and half-heartedly. But after catching a ...

Our fall and early winter fishing season is in full swing. At no other time of year can such a multitude of fishing styles be effective on the water. Blue-wing olive mayflies are still hatching, ...

“What dry flies are working?” is a question that I am asked on a daily basis. I always point people to the dry flies that I know can work this time of year, however I quickly inform them that if they ...

BASALT – Our fall fishing season is in full swing. At no other time of year can such a multitude of fishing styles be effective on the water. Blue-wing olive mayflies are still hatching, providing ...

The river’s waking up, pushing muddy color and rising. Fly anglers looking for alternatives to the less-than-perfect conditions or in need of safer locations for young anglers are appearing around ...

Hungry trout taking dry flies off the water surface is like poetry in motion to anglers and by far the most obvious cue to set the hook. Exhilaration aside, hatches don’t always cooperate and ...

Fly fishing Rocky Ford is still fishing decent. Blobs seem to be the fly of the year there. The Spokane River is finally ...