What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout? If your answer is casting a bug imitation that floats and then watching a fish rise to sip it off the surface, I’d say you fall in with the ...

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 ...

I’ll admit it – fly fishing with nymphs isn’t my favorite thing in the world. I prefer to watch a dry fly float downstream than an indicator, and subsurface eats don’t quite do it for me like dry fly ...

Emergers and nymphs are often lumped together because they’re both fished subsurface, and they both imitate aquatic insects in pre-adult life stages. Some nymphs and emergers may look similar, but ...

You need to add split shot or some other type of weight to the leader to get the fly down. If you aren't getting hung upon the bottom once in a while, you aren't fishing deep enough. Remember, the ...

Trout anglers have a new resource to help hone their skills and put more fish into their creels. Tim Cammisa, of rural Butler County, has penned his second book, “Tying Euro Nymphs and Other ...

During early-season nymph fishing, small adjustments — ones designed to present flies in slightly different currents — can often translate into big results. The basics of nymph fishing call for a fly ...

One of the major reasons I (and many of you) live here is because there is a piece of water for every approach and style of fly fishing in the Roaring Fork Valley. The “newest” (in fact, oldest) style ...

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