It’s that time of the year when wet fly fishing for trout is at itsbest. Somehow it’s in between the earlier season of trout fishing with small streamers, nymphs and muddlers and the dry fly ...

The winter issue of Trout Unlimited’s “Trout” magazine inspired me to want to return this spring to my fly fishing roots — swinging a type of wet flies known as “soft hackles.” Soft ...

Whitlock's wet-fly fishing technique catches trout. By BOB KRUMM Sep 17, 2015 Sep 17, 2015 Updated Jan ... Because traditional wet-fly fishing does not use weighted flies, ...

The classic wet flies that were commonly used in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries were generally of two types - simple "soft-hackle" flies and "quill-winged" flies.

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Techniques. Micro/trout Spey excels when swinging streamers or wet flies in runs with consistent depth and current. Cast 45 degrees downstream, then execute an upstream or downstream mend ...

Wet Fly Fishing - Wet fly fishing ... Considering that trout are generally bottom feeding fish, especially when there no bugs on the surface, wet fly fishing can often prove to be a smart option.

Of all the venerated fly-fishing books I read in my formative years, my bible was Ray Bergman’s “Trout.” First published in 1938, this book became a landmark work in American angling literature.

Hearing Dave Allbaugh of Wet Fly Waterguides speak at a recent Maryland Trout Unlimited meeting on wet fly fishing on the Gunpowder, I knew I had to return to my “first love,” wet fly/soft ...