FISHING — Strike indicators are especially important to fall fly fishing as surface activity tapers off on the region’s trout stream. The guides at Red’s Fly Shop on the Yakima River have prepared the ...

Kristen Patrocky holding a female rainbow that she landed this month at Spinney Reservoir while using a tandem nymph rig with a large Thingamabobber strike indicator. Photo by Jon Kleis, Special to ...

Nymph fishing is undoubtedly the most effective method for catching trout. Unfortunately, the way that most people do it isn’t terribly entertaining. In my experience, you can only watch a strike ...

Transitioning from a beginner to an intermediate angler comes after some on-the-water realizations. Becoming a better angler ...

We fly-fishers really look forward to the fall, with its cool weather and big trout. But when it arrives, it races by at breakneck speed, or at least that’s how it seems to me. Once the streams begin ...

Even people who are lousy at fly fishing, like me, can find moments of extreme joy when standing in the middle of a river. After a few consecutive days of fishing to get in the groove, even I start ...

Variety is the spice of life, and in fly-fishing there's no shortage of variety when it comes to the gear someone might use on the river. And if you're the type of angler who experiments with ...