Anglers tend to put a lot of stock in selecting the right dry fly to match a hatch. But, the truth is, the perfect fly won’t do you a whole lot of good if you don’t know how to present it. When it ...

How and when to twitch your dry flies to catch more trout.

There’s much more to fly fishing than tying on a fly and whipping your line around a pond. Casting, hook setting and reeling all demand a level of finesse that goes beyond what anglers experience when ...

When I first started trout fishing, I was given an invaluable piece of advice: start with dry flies. Talk to any trout angler, and they’ll tell you that fishing with subsurface flies simply catches ...

In New York’s Catskills, the cradle of American dry fly fishing, a total beginner learns the sport—and its history ...

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Flyfishing for trout isn’t a complicated, difficult sport. A close look reveals that a successful flyfisherman has mastered several basic abilities: casting smoothly and accurately, knowing how to ...