Winter can be an incredibly rewarding time to be out on your favorite trout stream! With fewer people sharing the water, the winter months offer up a fantastic opportunity to enjoy relative solitude and put a few trout in the net. The action typically doesn’t match that of spring and summer,...
Winter on the steelhead streams of the Great Lakes can be a spectacular experience with some truly brutal weather conditions. There’s something romantic about the idea of standing knee-deep in a rushing Lake Erie tributary stream as snow and wind rips across the water. It might not be everyone’s idea of...
There isn’t much that gets an angler’s heart pumping quite like a big trout hammering terrestrials right on the bank, which makes August a month to look forward to each year. In most parts of the country, August is a relatively dead month in terms of heavy bug hatches. Tricos are...
There are few better ways to spend a crisp fall morning than standing knee-deep in a favorite trout stream. The leaves are in their full color display, deer are moving freely as the rut picks up, and trout are actively feeding as they bulk up for the long winter ahead. It’s...
One of the most common dilemmas among anglers is not knowing exactly where to go when they have some time to fish. When time in the field is limited, anglers don’t want to spend all of their time scouting a new piece of water that they aren’t sure is productive. Luckily,...
Steelhead can’t resist a well-placed nymph rig, and that’s why most fly anglers start each trip targeting fish in this manner! When fly fishing for steelhead in the Great Lakes tributaries, it’s easy to become mesmerized by these giant fish in such small water. High-sticking nymph rigs are the perfect way...
How to cast a fly is basic in its simplest form. This is what we are about to cover. There are, for all intents and purposes, two casts that you need to know. Overhead Cast Roll Cast There are many other casts, such as the bow-and-arrow cast for casting in dense...
Are you a bass fisherman who loves explosive action? How about a fly fisherman who wants to try a different experience than tempting wary out? Do you live in an urban area with smaller ponds and lakes, but with out of the way trout streams? If you fit any of these categories, you...
Fly fishing for Steelhead is a different sorta thing that draws a different sorta person and takes different sorts of gear and tactics. Generally, when an angler is in the river searching for these chrome-cast monsters it is in the months where most folks are figuring what size auger to...
Every angler, regardless of their experience, shows up to the sport day after day aware that a catch is never promised. You can spend your entire life trying to capture a creature undeniably smaller than you, but no one or nothing can promise that you will. Some find that maddening,...
