Fall is a welcome relief for the trout angler exhausted from the scorching heat and dry conditions of summer. There’s something special about spending the day on a favorite trout stream while the leaves are in full array of their fall colors. While the wet-wading time of summer is a distant...
It’s no secret that terrestrials are both fun to fish and incredibly effective at luring up big trout from the depths. In terms of protein, ants and beetles certainly pack quite a punch, but it’s the hopper that really makes trout go crazy. These buzzing bank-dwellers jump through tall grasses and...
Every fly angler has been in this exact situation hundreds of times. You've found a slow-moving pool with a pod of trout visibly rising to feed. The trout are rising consistently and you've been watching carefully. Rather than taking insects sitting on the top, they look to be stopping short...
Anglers wait all year to throw on wet wading sandals and spend warm days fishing for trout in summer. Layers of fleece and wool gloves are nothing but a distant memory, and anglers have to change tactics to reflect the summertime trout fishing scene. When flows drop and trout get...
The truck door slams and the sound of the rushing water gets louder as we hike down the trail towards a favorite stream. Bugs swarm into the air when we push through the bushes that line the bank. Trout can be seen happily rising to the steady hatch and angler excitement...
While anglers desperately await the arrival of spring and the hatches that serve as a welcome relief from winter, midges still dominate the late winter months. Bug life often mirrors the weather outside, and rarely do huge mayflies hatch when temperatures are frigid and the snow is pounding. With that in...
At the end of the day an angler’s vest or pack can look more like a wrecked Christmas tree than anything else. Flies are strewn about, nymphs hopelessly snarled in the yarn of an egg pattern, and dry flies dangling from the eye of an articulated streamer are commonplace after an...
Visions of beautifully-colored brown trout fill anglers’ dreams all summer. The thought of these fat, gorgeous fish attacking every fly in sight is something folks from all over the country share in. From Montana to New York trout anglers all know the allure of fall fishing for browns. Autumn...
A delicate presentation helps keep your fly afloat longer. After work, I can't wait to rush out to the stream and get fishing. Often times I arrive just before dusk and right in the middle of a hatch. My adrenaline kicks in and my heart rate spikes. Seeing so many mouths feeding...
Many associate gaudy, articulated streamers with big trout, but it’s often eggs that yield the true giants of the deep. Pound for pound, nothing has more protein in a trout's diet than an egg. If there is a chance that fish (of any species) are spawning in a given waterway, odds...
