If you were to ask avid anglers to recount their most special days on the river, many would sing tales of eager trout piercing the water’s surface to sip a vulnerable fly. Dry fly fishing is almost a ...

A few days ago, the trout were rising to midges. I could go into the details of which river, water temperature, weather, and everything else that goes into a day of fly fishing, but for now it’s ...

Knowing the stages of development in a bug’s life is a critical component to successful fly fishing. Deciphering the hatch on a river is a challenging game. Larva, pupa or adult stages have been ...

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 ...

We are finally getting back in business on our rivers here in the Roaring Fork Valley! Hopefully more snow will come, but the great melt-off is in full swing and fishing is heating up. Recent ...

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.

Winter stoneflies are a puzzle for many fly fishers. With few insects hatching in the colder months of the year, a stonefly ...

Spring arrived for me when the ice left area ponds and streams. Along with the departure of the ice came the arrival of midge hatches. Even more reliable than the first bird of spring is the first fly ...

As dry fly hatches begin to ebb, we will need to focus below the river surface to remain effective. Complex summertime hatches will narrow down to only midges and blue winged olives after Halloween, ...

When I sneaked away for a few hours’ fishing on a lower Hudson Valley year-round stream the last Sunday in November, I was hoping to convince a trout or two to eat a nymph. Post-Thanksgiving trout ...

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 ...