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 fishing ...

There are three kinds of trout in this country — native, wild, and stocked. Native trout are the ones that have been here for ...

Do you realize that wet fly fishing is the original method of fly fishing? It dates back to medieval times and wasn't supplanted by dry fly fishing until the 1850s. Nymph fishing didn't come along ...

Most people think of trout fishing as synonymous with fly fishing. Indeed fly fishing is usually the most skillful and enjoyable approach and usually the most effective, too. But as I started to write ...

Fly fishing for trout on a stream or river could be addictive. The ability of an angler to try and present an imitation fly that looks very much like a natural in the current and allow it to move in ...

Traditional-wet-fly expert Don Bastian recently presented an interesting program about fishing with wet flies for trout to Delco Manning Trout Unlimited members in Brookhaven, Delaware County. I was ...

To fly fish for trout effectively, it’s important to be familiar with the food sources that your flies are designed to imitate. Many of the best trout anglers double as amateur entomologists, studying ...

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If you’ve had the chance to spend an extended amount of time fishing a single Rocky Mountain freestone river, you may have noticed an interesting pattern: trout tend to partition the river by species.

We fly-fishers really look forward to the fall, with its cool weather and big trout. But when it arrives, it races by at breakneck speed, or at least that’s how it seems to me. Once the streams begin ...

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Oswego County 4H and Trout Unlimited Chapter 589 are hosting a two-day youth fly fishing program on May 2-3, 2026, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The program is for youth 12 ...