Prime hopper season runs from late summer into early fall. When warm water and low flows slow the regular aquatic insect hatches, trout start looking elsewhere for calories. The good news is that ...

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this spring and early summer calls for big bugs that land with a splat. Because the major emergences are infrequent, cicada patterns may not be on every angler’s annual checklist of must-have flies.

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Fly fishing is synonymous with trout. When most people think about fly fishing, they conjure images of mountain streams and fish sipping mayflies and caddisflies off the surface. It’s true that the ...

More than 50 percent of the average trout’s diet consists of tiny midges, and it’s these microscopic insects that you’ll most likely find flying above local streams this month. But don’t knock ...

A few months ago, I wrote two articles on Presentation—the skill of putting a fly in front of a fish in a way that makes it eat. This article sits in the same wheelhouse, but from a different angle.

One of these caught fish, while the others didn't / Photo by Ken Baldwin Prime hopper season runs from late summer into early fall. When warm water and low flows slow the regular aquatic insect ...