During this transitional time of year, it’s not uncommon for one day of lights-out action to be followed by a total skunking. Even traditional methods of predicting fish behavior like tracking fronts, ...
A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...
The opening day of the 2021 trout fishing season in Pennsylvania – Saturday, April 3 – is approaching fast, but there’s still time for a newcomer to the sport to get geared-up for that big event. Here ...
Even with winds gusting and seas running 3 to 5 feet, my fishing team, my cameraman and I fought our way out to the wells in Breton Sound on Thursday, and absolutely tore up the speckled trout. In ...
The water is high. Conditions are rough. Anglers still wanting to fish are dredging flies down deep to locate trout that still have to eat. The best way to get to the fish and double your chances for ...
Spending a day at gorgeous mountain lake fishing is one of the most pleasant ways to enjoy life. Some people just enjoy looking at the scenery while drowning worms. However, if you actually want to ...
Use more bait, catch more trout. That's not an axiom you would read in a glossy fly-fishing magazine, but it holds true. There just are more subtle ways to describe what is a centuries-old technique; ...
The majority of the time, a single fly is the best presentation for success when fly fishing. An individual fly floats seemingly untethered, more at the mercy of the river currents. Even a single ...
Fishing the Patapsco River at the border of Howard and Baltimore counties, I often encountered the smiling face of Roland Avery, as effective a trout fisherman as I’ve ever met. Over the years I used ...