Fly fishing small streams forces you to develop controlled, precise casting. If you’re fishing a larger river, a misplaced cast may be the difference between a good drift and a bad drift – on ...

The best thing about small streams is that new pools lie around every bend. Fly fishing small streams on the East Coast will put you into some native brook trout. / photo by Ken Baldwin Jasper ...

For me, small stream trout fishing is synonymous with dry fly fishing. You could fish a nymph rig or tie on a dropper, but why would you? If you’re fishing right after it’s rained and the ...

Nymphs are subsurface flies that imitate the larval forms of aquatic insects. These weighted patterns are usually small, and they’re fished near the bottom of a stream or lake. They’re used mostly for ...

In fly fishing, a nymph is both an aquatic insect ... isn’t getting deep enough to tempt bottom-hugging trout. Add a small split-shot or two, or switch to a weighted nymph, until you can feel ...

the size of a small book, out of place in this unpeopled land of rock and cactus. Inside lay a colorful assortment of fishing flies. It was May 2020, and I had been trying to teach myself to fly ...

But the emphasis of fly-fishing is often the microscopic. In the physical sense, the lures are small as they are beautiful, with beaded, insectoid forms and jewel tones. They will often feature ...