Successful nymphing starts with your setup. A two-fly nymph rig is often the way to go – it allows you to cover a wider range of the water column, and it adds variety to your patterns. I’ll typically ...

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 ...

The river’s waking up, pushing muddy color and rising. Fly anglers looking for alternatives to the less-than-perfect conditions or in need of safer locations for young anglers are appearing around ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using a nymph as a dropper with a dry fly makes all the sense in the world, and I’ve seen it recommended many times — and yet I’ve only tried it occasionally and half-heartedly. But after catching a ...