guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

Surf fishing and be a bit intimidating to the uninitiated. It’s you against a vast ocean, and even though some lakes are huge, you still feel like the fish are confined enough that you have a shot.

I sometimes wonder what the earliest fly-fishers, hundreds or even thousands of years ago, would have thought about the practice, so common today, of fishing with just one fly. After all, back in the ...