Mountain towns in winter are bustling with snow skiing bound visitors. Restaurants are full, and the streets are crowded with families searching for the next best t-shirt shop or the best place to find a hot meal. These same people make the same trek to the mountains in the summer...
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Winter can be a hard time to catch trout, as our cold bloody quarry becomes less active and harder to coax into a bite. However, by using the correct patterns you can continue with your passion for fly fishing year-round. The major guidelines for winter trout fishing include: Is fly fishing good...
November begins the transition from fall to winter, and while there is still productive fishing to be had, weather becomes a much bigger factor in your preparation. Late fall days will bring a little bit of everything, so it’s important to have the right attire at hand. Enter, layering season. To...
When anglers think of winter fly fishing, it’s not often that dry flies come to mind. Rare is the January or February day when we ditch weights and indicators in favor of fly float and parachute dries. They do happen, however, and the ambitious fly fisher can catch trout on dries...
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...
Winter can be a truly blissful time to be out on the winter as crowds subside and trout still have to eat! Favorite trout streams that are busy with other anglers suddenly become peacefully silent even though trout lazily slip midges throughout the warmth of midday during the winter months. Snow...
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,...
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...
It doesn’t matter how many boxes filled with neatly organized flies we carry with us on the stream. Split shot, strike indicators, spare leaders, and spools of tippet are great accouterments, but none of it translates into finding trout during the harsh of winter. A perfectly weighted rig with beautifully...
