Carp favor warm water temps and are very active at times when Trout are trying to survive the summer heat. If you enjoy a smart, selective, tough fish to catch that fight with the kind of power trout ...

A trout angler’s first saltwater trip goes wrong on reflex, not on casting distance. The rod-lift hook set that buries a small hook in a trout’s soft mouth pulls a big saltwater hook straight out of a ...

Join Farlows’ Lucy Bowden, Level 2 Angling Coach, for a day of autumn stillwater fishing, with practical advice on tackle set-up, locating fish and improving your presentation as the season turns. You ...

Sand eel flies for striped bass need a thin, 4- to 6-inch, sparsely dressed profile fished low and slow on a sink-tip or intermediate line, not the deep-bodied bunker patterns that work earlier in the ...

A peer-reviewed study published August 27 in Scientific Reports gives the first quantitative look at how chinook salmon have responded to the Klamath River dam removals, and the pace surprised even ...

For over a decade, I’ve written and talked about fishing a Mono Rig for all underwater presentations — nymphs with and without an indicator, with and without split shot, dry dropper, streamers of all ...

Weight, not the 60-degree bend in a jig hook’s eye, is what makes a fly ride point-up. A slotted tungsten bead or a set of dumbbell eyes concentrated at the head will invert almost any streamer or ...

A 9-foot 5-weight with a mono leader will tight-line nymphs, and George Daniel says you can Euro nymph on a 4- or 5-weight, “absolutely.” A dedicated 2- or 3-weight Euro nymphing rod of roughly 10 to ...

The best time to fish for trout in late fall is roughly 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the window Allen Gardner names at The Catch and The Hatch as “the warmest parts of the day.” A trout stream is coldest in the ...

What’s all this confusing jargon with fly lines—true to line weight, half size heavy, one size heavy, and even one-quarter size heavy. Is there a real difference? Which one do you need? Or is there ...

Trout fishing in November is legal in nearly every trout state, on water that falls into a few repeatable categories: tailwaters below dams, delayed-harvest and artificial-only stream sections, ...

Midges are available to trout all year, and on cold tailwaters they’re the main food once mayfly and caddis activity drops off. Pat Dorsey, co-owner and head guide at Blue Quill Angler in Evergreen, ...