Streamer flies can mimic a variety of forage, but none is more common than baitfish. Unlike dry flies that match floating insects, and nymphs that look like aquatic insects in their larval stages, ...

DULUTH — "I’m a professional stay-at-home dad with a YouTube channel," Gunnar Brammer said when asked to describe his job. "I guess I’m a professional fly tier, too, since I teach fly-tying classes ...

Fall is in the air, and the spawn song for kokanee salmon is under way. Kokanee, a landlocked strain of Pacific sockeye salmon, are an important component of the fishery in about a dozen reservoirs ...

With the end of summer in sight, it’s time to stock those streamer boxes with larger flies that imitate baitfish, sculpin, and fry. Here is our list of don’t-leave-home-without fall flies for ...

Fall in the mountains means a drop in temperature, changing of the colors in the trees, the anticipation of snow and fishing with streamers for hungry trout. Streamer fishing this time of year can be ...

John C caught five trout at Lake Maloya using Pautzke Worms on Feb. 10. Erwin Sice Jr. caught two trout at Bluewater Lake using PowerBait Turbo Dough and corn on Feb. 13. Larry Bernstein caught a ...

One of Montana's legendary trout flies, the girdle bug, was designed to imitate a large stonefly nymph, or "hellgrammite," as the local anglers on the Big Hole River call the big aquatic insects. Lost ...

Hatches wane in the autumn season. The abundance of insects from summertime warmth fades quickly with the onset of colored leaves here in the Colorado high country. Fly anglers in the know reach for ...

I had specific expectations when I got this rod. It markets itself as a big streamer fly rod, and that's exactly how I planned to use it – throwing large squid-looking patterns for striped bass in ...

As a student of fishing my entire life, it has not escaped me that so many of the pivotal aspects of this sport can be credited to women. For instance, the first-ever published work on fly fishing was ...