Knowing the stages of development in a bug’s life is a critical component to successful fly fishing. Deciphering the hatch on a river is a challenging game. Larva, pupa or adult stages have been ...

Catching a trout during an insect hatch feels like a little pat on the back from the fly fishing gods. Among all of the natural insects available, a fish decided to take your imitation. Quite a few ...

It’s rare that a single fly pattern can work every day and in every situation on a western trout stream, but I’d argue that Rim Chung’s RS2 Emerger comes pretty darn close. Rim’s personally tied RS2s ...

I learned the basics of small water fly fishing from my dad, a former Orvis guide and dry fly purist, who favored the small creeks and streams of western Virginia where I grew up. I used to question ...

The weather lately possesses a certain unpredictability from day to day. Sunny and blue skies one day, snow storms, wind and cold temperatures the next, the river keeps giving trout a different look.

Trout were chasing Caddis Emergers and taking caddis adults off the surface on Manatawny Creek March 26 during the 2016 Mentored Youth Trout Fishing Day. As the regional trout season opens this ...

Jonathan Sturgeon and his group caught and released between 10-20 rainbow trout and brown trout each day on May 5 and 6 below Eagle Nest Lake on the Cimarron River, using size-14 stone fly emergers ...

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 ...