The dry-fly fishing up the Fryingpan River just won’t quit! Many people refer to the Fryingpan as the “jewel of the valley,” and one of her best attributes is the low water temperatures flowing out of ...

From fly fishing tips to must-have flies to a hand-crafted German fly reel maker, these stories captured our Sports Illustrated fishing reader’s attention on Fishing on SI this past week. Want to make ...

Few things are more frustrating than watching a trout turn its nose up at your fly. You did enough to get the fish interested, but your presentation wasn’t all the way convincing. Maybe it wasn’t ...

When I first started trout fishing, I was given an invaluable piece of advice: start with dry flies. Talk to any trout angler ...

Professional Fishing Guide Mike King gives us great tips and advice, on matching the bug hatches with your fly patterns on the South Holston River.

Dan Anthon, head guide at The Fly Fishers Place in Sisters, can find something to fish for in central Oregon every day of the year -- barring snow, ice and impassable roads, of course. A few tips, in ...

Two Texas fly fishermen walk into a bar in Ennis, Montana. They sit down at the bar, but what they hear aren’t the typical fisherman’s bar jokes. The complaints are swirling, from other fly fishermen, ...

Prince nymph, woolly bugger, marabou muddler, mustard caddis, hippie stomper, rainbow warrior-sometimes I feel like I'm ...

Flyfishing for trout isn’t a complicated, difficult sport. A close look reveals that a successful flyfisherman has mastered several basic abilities: casting smoothly and accurately, knowing how to ...

Don't let the rainbow trout fool you. It's been passed off as a gentleman's fish, a fragile creature, and needs to be handled with kid gloves. That is not the fish that I pursue. The trout I know have ...