It’ll work about as well during a caddis hatch as it does during a mayfly hatch. Keep a few smaller ones (size 18-22) on hand ...

Take a look at our roundup of the best dry fly boxes on the market. These boxes will help keep your flies in good condition so you are always ready on the river.

Put these 25 all-time great fly patterns in your arsenal, and you'll be ready to target almost any gamefish in the river, lake, or sea.

That made it easy to revert back to more traditional dry fly patterns or short-line dead drift nymphing techniques when the fly didn’t immediately produce trout. The spider came from an earlier ...

Tying flies has long been one of my favorite winter activities. I derive much pleasure from crafting a supply of the many fly patterns needed to restock my fly boxes for the upcoming trout season ...

Compared to dry flies, which have hundreds of well-known patterns in circulation, there are only a handful of standard nymph patterns, and few of them I consider to be “must haves” for Eastern ...

A fly fisherman can get a good idea of size and color as they fly for a safer spot. Tie on a floating adult pattern and use standard upstream dry-fly techniques.

A few days ago, the trout were rising to midges. I could go into the details of which river, water temperature, weather, and everything else that goes into a day of fly fishing, but for now it’s ...

Fly Fishing Lessons That Transfer In the life of every dry fly angler, there comes a time when a friend who has no business outfishing you does so by using subsurface flies.

Fly fishers of any skill level are catching trout on caddis patterns, especially dry flies. Right now, anglers can move it, drown it, swing it— go ahead: fish it sloppy.

Of course, that’s no small task, considering that there are now thousands of creative dry fly, streamer, and nymph patterns crafted by folks all over the globe.