At the time, we accepted that fly fishing meant dry fly fishing. Fishing a “floating fly” required you to develop all the basic fly fishing skills: casting, mending the fly line, matching the ...

For those of us who like to catch fish, we can divide the almighty fly into three basic categories: dry flies and other top-water patterns, nymphs, and streamers. These can imitate everything under ...

For me, small stream trout fishing is synonymous with dry fly fishing ... stream trout is one of the true joys of fly fishing. Here are the five basic flies to start with. The CDC Caddis is ...

Basic. Four primary types of aquatic insects ... and the spinner fall is often the best time for dry fly action during a hatch. Flies imitating spinners have flat wings, and again, matching ...

I find a good basic selection of summertime dry flies in a range of sizes will do the job most of the time. My first choice will usually be a caddisfly imitation. My favorite caddis dry fly ...

With a basic understanding of what nymphs are and ... during which time they swim or float to the surface and sprout wings. That killer dry-fly action that anglers crave happens during the periods ...

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

Basic fly fishing instruction tells you to look ... the foam that concentrates in eddies is usually too thick for a dry fly or most nymphs to penetrate. A bead-headed wooly bugger will drop ...

Off-colored water can make early-season angling difficult. Fly fishers with skills beyond the swift water know that looking to lakes, ponds and reservoirs can keep you in the game. But fly choices can ...

To test for accuracy, I placed three 20-inch by 20-inch targets at distances of 20, 45, and 60 feet. Using a single dry fly, I cast each rod at each target three times, marking the number of times the ...