One of the challenges that fly anglers face when fishing for trout is trying to learn exactly what the trout are feeding on and trying to match that with their nearest fly imitation to achieve the ...

In the beginning of your fly fishing journey, the most common concept of fly fishing is floating a "bug"-like fly on the top of the water to induce a fish to strike. The fly is supposed to represent a ...

In the life cycle of a mayfly, probably only 12 to 36 hours is spent in the air. The rest of the time is sub-aquatic developing for the open-air emergence. It is no wonder that wet fly fishing is more ...

ELK RIVER, W.V. — One of the most difficult things to explain to your host or guide when you’re fishing “their” river for the first time is that you really do understand if you “should’ve been here ...

Walleyes and saugers are hitting across the lake with the mayfly hatch two weeks early this year, Lake of the Woods Tourism said in its weekly update. Typically after the mayfly hatch, the spinner ...

It was a number of years back that this fly-fishing experience took place and I often refer to it as the Magic Hatch. I had fished a hundred yard section of stream that I often fished, which was ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. -- Even the dreadfully novice fly angler has a chance at landing a jaw-dropping brown trout for about 10 days of June on the Straight River. “You don't have to be skilled at all to ...

Evening has enveloped Wisconsin’s Brule River, and now the fishing has become mostly an exercise in listening. From just downstream come the liquid slurps that indicate trout are feeding. “That’s a ...

In most areas where trout live, four orders of aquatic insects comprise a majority of the food the fish eat. The orders are mayflies (Ephemeroptera), stoneflies (Plecoptera), caddis flies (Trichoptera ...