When I first started trout fishing, I was given an invaluable piece of advice: start with dry flies. Talk to any trout angler, and they’ll tell you that fishing with subsurface flies simply catches ...

You’re casting to a trout – or a spot where you think there should be a trout – and you can’t seem to get the drift right. Nine times out of ten, you can solve this problem by repositioning yourself.

Tying flies has long been one of my favorite winter activities. I derive much pleasure from crafting a supply of the many fly patterns needed to restock my fly boxes for the upcoming trout season.

Flyfishing for trout isn’t a complicated, difficult sport. A close look reveals that a successful flyfisherman has mastered several basic abilities: casting smoothly and accurately, knowing how to ...

The salmonfly hatch is an epic, annual event on many Western trout rivers. Here are some tips on how to fish the hatch.

If we boil it down, there are two ways to approach fishing the rivers and lakes here in the valley.  The first approach is ...

The Red Quill fly is eloquently finished with split wood duck flank wings and a medium dun rooster feather tail and hackle.