Brad Trumbo dead-drifting a caddis for rainbows on the Tucannon River, Washington. If you’re a fly-fisherman, think back on your first trout on the fly. Can you remember it? Turns out I cannot, but I ...

I just finished setting up the card table over the dogs’ kennel box in the back room. It’ll probably stay up at least until the trout opener, because it holds all the fly tying materials to the left ...

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BASALT – Mother’s Day caddis. These three words make fisherman shutter in their wading boots as spring finally takes hold. Though the Roaring Fork and Colorado rivers have good mayfly hatches, both ...

A football coach, an author and a “riverkeeper” walk into a fly shop one autumn afternoon. What do they walk out with? If you’re waiting for a punch line, relax; fall fly fishing is no joke to these ...