With spring quickly approaching, it’s time for anglers to prepare their fly boxes for matching a few more hatches. Baetis — also referred to as Blue Winged Olive mayflies, Caddis and Stonefly nymphs — ...

As dry fly hatches begin to ebb, we will need to focus below the river surface to remain effective. Complex summertime hatches will narrow down to only midges and blue winged olives after Halloween, ...

Spring is in full swing. Flowers are blooming, birds are chirping and trout are eating bugs off the surface of the water. It’s time to discover what bugs the fish are eating. Anglers can run into an ...

What fly should I tie on? This is the age-old question, and there are plenty of “old reliables” most local anglers wouldn’t leave home without. As we slide into our winter season, here are some basics ...

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

JIM THORPE, Pa. — We'll sit down with expert fly tyer Tom Lienhard and watch as he ties up a sulfur emerger dry fly.

If fly-fishing is so simple, how come it seems like every guide in Colorado carries 5,000 flies to the river? Good question. The reality is that most guides tend to use the same 15 or so flies all ...

The Eagle River transitions rapidly into the ideal fly-fishing river for both the floating angler and the wading fly fisher. The window usually closes quickly, but this season the floating has held ...

The competition was won by Ryan Matthews and the other seven qualifiers for the final, in order, were – Gareth Tilley, Brian ...