Every year, there’s a period of about six weeks between late April and early June when people will tell you trout rivers are unfishable. Don’t listen to them. It’s true that as temperatures warm, snow ...

Catfish, striped bass, and walleyes are just a few fish widely known to hunt nocturnally. It’s not uncommon for anglers to wait until the sun sets to get after them, especially considering the bigger ...

For many eager anglers, the opening day of trout season can be considered the unofficial start of spring. It’s the time when many will dust off their rods, reels, boots, vests and other gear preparing ...

Fish for long enough, and someone will tell you that it’s cruel or inhumane – but you and I both know that there’s no one who cares more about the health and well-being of trout than a trout angler.

For many anglers, myself included, trout fishing is synonymous with small freestone streams. Dry flies, undiscerning fish, mountain air, complete solitude – sign me up. Unfortunately, these streams ...

guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

I’ll fess up. Nothing is more blood-pressure raising to me than pinning a big trout on an itty-bitty dry fly. Scoring the take is the fun part, no doubt, but whenever I’m trying to feed a hefty brown ...

Trout fishing in muddy water can be a pain. All those rules you’ve been taught about where fish should be? Throw them out the window. If you can’t see anything, trout can’t see anything – they’re ...

If you think about fly fishing or river fishing in general, chances are that a brown trout comes to mind. Catching a big brown is the pinnacle for many trout anglers, whether fishing with fly gear or ...