A couple of years ago, I was fishing with a group of fly fishermen that included two or three younger guys in their mid to ...

It’s that time of the year when wet fly fishing for trout is at itsbest. Somehow it’s in between the earlier season of trout fishing with small streamers, nymphs and muddlers and the dry fly fishing ...

To help pass a few long winter evenings in the past couple of months, I read once again several classic fly-fishing books that had greatly influenced me during my early years. Absorbing the familiar ...

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In preparation for a sacred day in the lives of many Northern Michigan outdoors people — that being opening day of trout season on April 28 — I asked several local fly fishing fanatics what six flies ...

Grasshoppers, crickets, ants, beetles, bees, dragonflies, cicadas“¦ There’s a whole mess bugs classified as terrestrials. No matter the insect, when a breeze blows any of these land-based trout snacks ...

In 18th- and 19th-century America, immigrants continued the British wet-fly tradition to fish for the native brook trout. The aggressive char proved to be particularly susceptible to the bright, gaudy ...

We fly-fishers really look forward to the fall, with its cool weather and big trout. But when it arrives, it races by at breakneck speed, or at least that’s how it seems to me. Once the streams begin ...