Still, wintertime trout do need to eat, and that means you can catch them if you fish in the right places with the right ...

Make room in your fly box for a few mouse flies. Once you experience the thrill of catching a big trout on a "Mouse," you'll understand the obsession. Here are my two favorite patterns to get you ...

There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched ...

What a difference a week makes on a trout stream. On Jan. 20, the temperature at Buffalo City was 7 degrees. On Jan. 28, it ...

In southwest New Mexico at Elephant Butte Lake near Truth or Consequences, trout were not biting. Fishing for walleye was ...

It’s probably not an exaggeration to say that egg patterns are the most important flies for Great Lakes steelhead. Eggs can work especially well on fish that have just entered tributaries, but they ...

I make it a practice to always carry a few mouse patterns in my fly box when fishing for trout. You don’t need an entire box dedicated to mouse flies, but keep a couple ready—you might just ...