One of the marvels of fishing is looking at the different colors and patterns on a trout. It’s fascinating to look at the spots and designs that are unique to each brook, brown or rainbow you catch.

Every time I fish a brook trout stream, I’m reminded why I have such a soft spot for them. I’m a sucker for dry fly eats, and a brook trout hits a dry fly like no other. The best thing about them?

In preparation for a sacred day in the lives of many Northern Michigan outdoors people — that being opening day of trout season on April 28 — I asked several local fly fishing fanatics what six flies ...

Brook trout and lake trout are two of the more popular fall spawning fish species. Despite their names, they belong to the char family. There are few fish in Colorado prettier than a male brook trout ...

Anglers can find brook trout in alpine lakes, like this one in the Pioneer Mountains near Sun Valley. They also are typically found in mountain streams and beaver ponds. Pete Zimowsky Special to the ...

NORTHWESTERN ONTARIO - The brook trout hit in circus fashion, it’s beefy body coming half out of the water as it grasped the gaudy dry fly. As strikes go, it was right out of a fly anglers fantasy. No ...

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 ...