While winter might not be synonymous with solid dry fly fishing, there are still plenty of opportunities to catch fish on top when the weather is cold! One of the biggest knocks on wintertime fly fishing is that it’s often long days spent watching indicators. The dry fly action certainly isn’t...
For many of us, we don’t have the luxury of waiting until the perfect weather creates ideal conditions on a favorite trout stream. Winter seems eternal for the trout angler anxiously awaiting the return to warm weather and hungry trout. While there’s certainly nothing wrong with throwing tiny midges for selective,...
Euro nymphing is a specialized form of fly fishing using only heavily weighted nymphs with no split shots or strike indicators. It has been referred to as Czech, French, Tight-line, High Sticking, and Polish Nymphing. European nymphing was formally introduced in 1989 at the World Fly Fishing Championship by Wladyslaw...
Few moments in fly fishing rival the hard thud of a steelhead striking a streamer and the ensuing chaos that ranges from cartwheeling runs to violent shakes of the head. Streamers require some dedication from anglers because they typically won’t be quite as productive as nymph rigs, but there are certainly...
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,...
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...
For bug enthusiasts, high summer can be a fairly dull time of year, with terrestrials taking center stage and mayfly activity bottoming out for the year. The seemingly never-ending drought of bug activity ceases with the first sign of the trico hatch! This is no easy trout snack to master, however. ...
