More than 50 percent of the average trout’s diet consists of tiny midges, and it’s these microscopic insects that you’ll most likely find flying above local streams this month. But don’t knock ...

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Prime hopper season runs from late summer into early fall. When warm water and low flows slow the regular aquatic insect hatches, trout start looking elsewhere for calories. The good news is that ...

Fly fishing experts share techniques for catching trout, bass, and crappie in Pennsylvania, including Euro nymphing and ...

When I first started trout fishing, I was given an invaluable piece of advice: start with dry flies. Talk to any trout angler, and they’ll tell you that fishing with subsurface flies simply catches ...

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 ...

These hacks from a seasoned trout guide will help you keep your dry flies floating all day, and convince more trout to take ...

As the story goes, fly-angling aristocrats actually banned the use of this colorful wet fly on the fabled chalk streams. Because the fly impersonated a baitfish instead of an insect, the hoi polloi of ...