When I guided, I made it a practice to step away from my anglers and let them fish. From a distance I would watch and see if I could discern the strengths and weaknesses in their game: why were they ...

Some fly anglers will argue that "presentation" is the most important skill in fly fishing if you want to catch more fish...they are not wrong. Learning to fly fish can seem daunting because there is ...

I have fly fished for various warm-water fish. I have cast flies for bass, catfish, panfish, and carp. The one species I had not cast my fly toward, until now, was a gar. I had heard about it. But ...

My son David, brother-in-law Kenny and I joined up on many fall fishing trips to Canada. We always stayed in a Russell, Manitoba, motel, exploring nearby lakes outfitted with fly rods, chest waders ...

I live in one of the most trout-rich states. Idaho is chock-full of blue-ribbon waters, and fly anglers descend upon them ­every spring. I like to target trout as much as the next guy, but I can only ...

Grasshoppers, crickets, ants, beetles, bees, dragonflies, cicadas… There’s a whole mess bugs classified as terrestrials. No matter the insect, when a breeze blows any of these land-based trout snacks ...