This week’s lineup runs two streamers alongside two small trout patterns. We open with the Gray Squirrel Zonker Streamer from Lucian Vasies, a late-summer and autumn favorite of his for big trout, ...

Peacock herl catches fish, and the Zug Bug is mostly peacock herl. That iridescent green-bronze body does the heavy lifting – it reads as a caddis larva, a mayfly nymph, or a small dragonfly nymph ...

Fall bull redfish move onto Louisiana's clear, shallow marsh flats Oct–Feb. How to time a trip to the front cycle, where to ...

Tie deer-hair divers and sliders for fall bass: hair physics, GSP thread, hook and packing specs, weed-guard alignment, and ...

To control a swung fly in high, fast water, size the belly of your line to the current instead of trying to remove it. The belly is the downstream bow the current pushes into your fly line, and it is ...

The Partridge and Orange is the soft-hackle wet fly to tie and swing for fall trout, and it works because it stays simple: a thin orange silk body, an optional wire rib, and two turns of soft gray ...

The Denver Board of Water Commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday to end the lawn watering season a month early, banning ...

To cast big musky and pike flies all day, use the Belgian cast, also called the oval cast: sweep the backcast low and off… To ...

Charlie ties a stonefly/caddis attractor pattern he has coined the “Government Cheese”. It’s stealthy, buoyant, and with an unassuming profile, does the job of a stimulator even on pressured water. A ...

61°F. That’s the water temperature where mortality starts climbing fast for rainbow, brook, cutthroat, and steelhead — seven degrees below the 68°F rule most anglers quote. A stream thermometer for ...

A good drift is mostly a number. Watch a #16 Sulphur dun ride a Penns Creek seam without dragging and you’re looking at roughly two feet of usable slack absorbing about a foot per second of velocity ...