My Home Waters: An Angler Finds Escape and Solace on a Trout River
SPRING
I was ready to go home. I’d been fishing for a couple of hours and had nothing to show for it. No follows. No...
Stick Fight: Spin Fishing vs. Fly Fishing
Editor’s note: As hunters and anglers, we don’t agree on everything. We’ve even been known to argue on occasion. That’s why this week is...
F&S Fly of The Week: The Clouser Deep Minnow
We’ve begun hearing welcome reports of striped bass being caught in coastal rivers in the Northeast. The first fly that many striper addicts will...
F&S Fly of The Week: Meyer’s Mini Leech
In more than 30 years of fly-fishing for trout, I’ve never seen a leech. Maybe I don’t fish where leeches live, although that seems...
F&S Fly of The Week: The Blowtorch
If Devin Olsen puts a fly in his Top 5, you would be well advised to do the same. Obsessed with fly-fishing since his...
How to Plan Your Striper Season Now and Catch More Fish Later
It doesn’t matter if you’re throwing flys or plugs—if you want to catch more stripers this season, or catch the fish of a lifetime,...
F&S Fly of The Week: The Pat’s Rubber Legs
In the Northeast, the first sign of late-winter life on most of our trout streams is the sight of little black stoneflies, often crawling...
Will Genetically Modified “Trojan” Brook Trout Save Native Trout in the West?
This story originally appeared in bioGraphic, an online magazine about nature and solutions powered by the California Academy of Sciences. On a golden morning in...
Breaking: Invasive Smallmouth Bass Caught Within Spitting Distance of Yellowstone National Park
On February 19, 2022, a fly fisherman caught a smallmouth bass at the confluence of the Gardner and Yellowstone Rivers—less than half of a...
The Season: Spring Bling
What’s curious about shad flies is that no one is convinced that migrating shad even eat the dang things. At least, not this time...
