Many trout fly anglers love studying aquatic insects ... it’s usually just fine to fish a classic and simple pattern, such as a Comparadun, sparkle dun, or even a basic Adams.

For fly anglers ... but bug-focused trout usually have blinders on. That said, casting a large streamer or a minnow pattern during an active hatch can sometimes attract a big fish that would ...

With thousands of fly patterns available these days, finding ones you can rely on day in and day out becomes daunting. Every angler has those “confidence patterns” in their fly boxes that they bank on ...

If you’ve had the chance to spend an extended amount of time fishing a single Rocky Mountain freestone river, you may have noticed an interesting pattern: trout tend to partition the river by ...

Fly fishing success on a lake or stream is in part determined by the flies you use. Many a day has been saved by changing from a fly that is ...

You don’t hear that as much nowadays. “As I evolved as a fly fisherman — branching out into saltwater and fishing for bigger trout and bass — it became readily apparent that the old dogma was just ...