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 ...

The Wasatch Fly Tying and Fly Fishing Expo is unique because it is all volunteer-based to raise money for Utah Trout Unlimited and Utah Fly Fishers International. It's going on at the Mountain America ...

I always keep a gel and powder dry fly floatant in my pack. They’re similar substances, but they’re used at different times. Before your first cast of the day, you’ll apply a small amount of the gel ...

In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.

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 ...

DUTCH JOHN, Utah — If you have a hobby, at some point in your life you hope to experience the best there is. For me it’s fly fishing for trout. It took 71 years, but for two days last week I floated ...

Picture this: Crisp, early-morning air, the sound of a rushing stream, and (of course) a six-pack of one of the season's finest brews. Sounds pretty damn perfect, right? You're just missing one thing: ...

Megan McNeil coaxed the final rainbow trout out of a Utah Division of Wildlife Resources stocking truck, using the broken handle of a net to prod the holdout to escape the metal tank. Slipping through ...

If you would rather fish dry flies than any other style of fishing there is to employ, you definitely live in the right place. One would argue, if you’re stubborn enough, you could fish a dry fly on ...