The author with a wild Western Pennsylvania brown taken right after a major bump in river height. Just a few weeks ago, I made a six-hour drive to Western Pennsylvania to target brown trout on a very ...

Streamer flies can mimic a variety of forage, but none is more common than baitfish. Unlike dry flies that match floating insects, and nymphs that look like aquatic insects in their larval stages, ...

Every year, there’s a period of about six weeks between late April and early June when people will tell you trout rivers are unfishable. Don’t listen to them. It’s true that as temperatures warm, snow ...

We are out here on the lower Niagara River in the month of December, and today we're looking for trout. We're going to be running a T-Turn bait rig, using the new x-small T-Turn, with a line down to a ...

A deep, slow-moving pool is as close as you’ll get to trout paradise – cool, oxygen-rich, and easy for fish to hold in. It should come as no surprise that pools are great places to catch trout, but ...

When the weather and water temps start dropping, most trout anglers break out the tiny flies. Fishing midges deep in the water column is a great way to catch trout in the colder months, but it’s not ...

Fly fishing for trout can be one of the most rewarding and exciting outdoor pursuits there is. It can also be one of the most frustrating. I often hear people who don’t fly fish talk about how ...

In this edition of the Explore Oregon Podcast, host Zach Urness focuses on how to fish the state's hike-in alpine lakes with expert angler and fish biologist Jeff Ziller with the Oregon Department of ...

Trout fishing in muddy water can be a pain. All those rules you’ve been taught about where fish should be? Throw them out the window. If you can’t see anything, trout can’t see anything – they’re ...

Flip Putthoff/NWA Democrat-Gazette Children touch a Carolina chickadee during the Birds and Breakfast event in January 2023 ...