Lakes are a favorite target of fly fishing anglers throughout our region during the summer. It doesn’t matter if you are ...

Although wet flies will take trout from deep pools and cold spring inlets, they are most effective when fished through ...

Great Lakes steelhead are adfluvial fish, meaning they migrate from big lakes into rivers to spawn. This annual migration starts in the fall and ends in the spring when they return to the lakes to ...

Traditionally fished in the down-and-across presentation common to wet flies, the natural materials of a soft hackle fly impart dramatic and lifelike motion in river currents, resembling mayflies and ...

Yes, wild browns – they aren’t native to the United States, but brown trout reproduce naturally and form self-sustaining populations in many American rivers and streams. When you think of fishing the ...

A close second would be, “What (or how many) fly patterns do I need to have to be successful most of the time? Those are both valid queries, and ones which reflect the quintessence of fly-fishing. On ...

While picking up mail at the post office recently, I crossed paths with a local fly fishing acquaintance and stopped to chat.

With places like Jackson’s County Fly Fishing Trail, the brown trout blessed Watauga River and plenty of other rivers, creeks, and small streams, North Carolina is quickly becoming a more prevalent ...

The first time Kevin Morlock suggested I drive more than 500 miles to fly fish for carp, I questioned his sanity. Known as ...