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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 ...

Knowing the stages of development in a bug’s life is a critical component to successful fly fishing. Deciphering the hatch on a river is a challenging game. Larva, pupa or adult stages have been ...

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The No. 1 dry fly pattern for the March Brown hatch is the Trina’s Carnage Drake March Brown (14). A good dry fly tactic is to fish a tandem rig using a larger spotter dry fly along with a smaller dry ...

April means many things to fly fishers. For most, it rings in the fair-weather fishing season, as the first waves of blue winged olives and caddis arrive with those April showers. If you’ve ever ...

Boulder River: Try stonefly nymphs like North Fork specials, bitch creeks, Jimmy legs and girdle bugs with either a copper John, prince nymph, hare’s ear or pheasant tail as a dropper. It is not too ...

What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout? If your answer is casting a bug imitation that floats and then watching a fish rise to sip it off the surface, I’d say you fall in with the ...

April means many things to fly fishers. For most, it rings in the fair-weather fishing season, as the first waves of blue winged olives and caddis arrive with those April showers. If you’ve ever ...