guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

The water level was low, the Roaring Fork River was clear but the fishing down in Woody Creek sure was slow. We almost got skunked on this episode of The Drop-In, but luckily one member of our ...

To the uninitiated, choosing the right type of fly fishing line can be rather daunting. Unlike conventional rods and reels, which rely on the weight of the lure or rig to cast effectively, a fly rod ...

Every Wednesday in the summer, Flinn, a fly-fishing guide with Aspen Outfitting Company, holds a women’s fly-flishing clinic at the shop’s Woody Creek location. For this episode of The Drop-In, we ...

For those of you who are new to the game or have been holed up in some dark, far-off place, I would like to introduce and recommend a very effective way to fish our rivers and streams here in the ...

The local rivers are holding some incredible fly fishing between their banks. Anglers looking to maximize their time on the water are resorting to fishing with dry dropper rigs and for good reasons.

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 ...

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 ...