I like to fish dry flies. It’s not that I dislike nymph fishing, but there’s something truly special about watching a trout rise to your fly. There are, however, times when fishing dry flies simply ...

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 ...

Joren Bruggink of Aeres University of Applied Sciences, at left, and Jai Lake of the University of Bristol investigate how horseflies behave around horses wearing different colored coats. This was ...

BOSTON (Kyodo) -- A group of 11 Japanese scientists won the Ig Nobel prize in biology on Thursday for their experiment showing that painting zebra-like stripes on cattle significantly reduces the ...

While some states still have formal trout openers, most allow year-round fishing so anglers can get out there even during the depths of winter. Although trout need cold water to survive, when water ...

Last week, I wrote about my four favorite hopper-style flies that work wonders on our local rivers and creeks. This week is all about the flies we place below the hopper, the dropper fly. Most dropper ...

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 ...