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 ...

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

When anglers gather together, talk of how many fish were caught while nymphing on a recent outing inevitably rises. Deep dredging with heavy double-beaded 20 inches or inverted hooks with tungsten ...

In a typical winter I don’t go fishing much between late December and the end of January, but I always try to make at least a few trips to the river just to see what’s happening. This winter has been ...

FISHING — Strike indicators are especially important to fall fly fishing as surface activity tapers off on the region’s trout stream. The guides at Red’s Fly Shop on the Yakima River have prepared the ...

Nymph fishing is undoubtedly the most effective method for catching trout. Unfortunately, the way that most people do it isn’t terribly entertaining. In my experience, you can only watch a strike ...

Our winter fishing season is in full swing, and the simplified insect menu can play in our favor. Midges are hatching for dry fly opportunities along with the usual streamer fishing. But day in and ...

There was Elephant Rock, straight ahead, and in the churning river current. If you’ve never seen it, Elephant Rock is about the size of a semi’s tractor and sleeping cab – the kind used by ...

Last Wednesday my friends, Paul Dubas and Tina Krueger, floated the Bighorn River with me. It was a nice day with the air temperature eventually nudging up close to 70 degrees, but a strong southwest ...