Check any fly fisherman’s fly box and it’s likely you will find a bit of Troth’s legacy. In 1957, Troth designed one of the most definitive dry-fly patterns of all time – the elk hair caddis.

Sulphurs or even a caddis fly or they could be kept as a general imitation and fished as a type of attractor pattern. The versatility in how the flies are tied can also allow the fly angler to imitate ...

LAKEVIEW -- Kathy Wirzfeld caught her first fish on a fly rod the hardest way possible -- the Jarrod Ruggles way. It was also ...

Wet wading season is here! The fishing is getting a bit more challenging as the big bugs of June and early July fade away. As daytime highs increase, combined with ...

A custom creation Jackson has been perfecting. It shares the characteristics of a damselfly and dragonfly larva. “It looks ...

A better word for edges would be transitions. In other words, where one type of water changes to another, one type of bottom ...

Last week we talked about looking for edges when fishing. There is another edge that we can’t see. As surface water ...

Blake Jackson, a guide and co-owner of Casper’s Ugly Bug Fly Shop, ties a carp-slaying pattern.

Discover prime time evening fly fishing in the Adirondacks. Learn when and where to fish zebra caddis and hex hatches for ...

I have been asked many times, what is the best trout fly. My answer is, there isn’t an “all around best trout fly”. There are ...

A study published in the Annals of the Entomological Society of America, offers the most detailed view to date of how this ...