In a typical winter I don’t go fishing much between late December and the end of January, but I always try to make at least a few trips to the river just to see what’s happening. This winter has been ...

FISHING — Strike indicators are especially important to fall fly fishing as surface activity tapers off on the region’s trout stream. The guides at Red’s Fly Shop on the Yakima River have prepared the ...

Nymph fishing is undoubtedly the most effective method for catching trout. Unfortunately, the way that most people do it isn’t terribly entertaining. In my experience, you can only watch a strike ...

Indicator nymphing is also worth a try, but you need to be able to get your flies down deep. An Umpqua Deep Water Indicator Leader is the way to go. This allows you to fish under an indicator in up to ...

guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

The key to nymph fishing is getting the fly to drift in a natural manner close to the bottom, but not on the bottom. In "The Orvis Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing," Tom Rosenbauer writes, "Most of the ...

Should you get into Euro nymphing? Well, consider this: If you’re interested in fast cars, your experts are NASCAR and Formula 1. If you’re into basketball, perhaps your role models are the NBA. And ...

When anglers gather together, talk of how many fish were caught while nymphing on a recent outing inevitably rises. Deep dredging with heavy double-beaded 20 inches or inverted hooks with tungsten ...

When you are new to fly fishing, every “problem” tends to look like a nail –because the only tool in your belt is a hammer. Fly casting is a game of subtleties, and when it comes to the actual fishing ...