Last week, I offered some suggestions on assembling a basic assortment of nymph patterns for early-season trout in our region. This week, I’ll present a similar discussion targeting dry-fly patterns.

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 ...

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"Here is my short list of must-have dry flies for brook trout. I carry many others, but few rise to the level of these." ...

For those of you who are new to the game or have been holed up in some dark, far-off place, I would like to introduce and recommend a very effective way to fish our rivers and streams here in the ...

Fly fishing is a wonderful sport, first documented by the ancient Macedonians in the 4th century BC. Since then, the ongoing evolution of our sport has been richly chronicled with classic literature ...

ALL have hooks and hackles. Most have bodies and silks. A few, glorious creations also come with wings, ribs, whisks and legs. Cheekier examples have an “ass”. From these few simple structures a ...