You’re casting to a trout – or a spot where you think there should be a trout – and you can’t seem to get the drift right. Nine times out of ten, you can solve this problem by repositioning yourself.

"'Presentation is everything.' No wiser words were told to me early in my fly fishing learning curve. It's a fact, the fly angler who is skilled in the presentation of his fly will catch more fish." ...

David Coggins, whose book on fly-fishing, “The Optimist,” comes out from Scribner this week, has fished all over. For bass in Wisconsin, bonefish in the Bahamas, salmon in Canada, trout in Montana and ...

Mark Kurlansky can’t quite tell you what he loves about fly fishing. Mostly, it’s a way of immersing himself in nature. Except it’s actually that he’s afflicted by an “occult and mysterious instinct,” ...

If you would rather fish dry flies than any other style of fishing there is to employ, you definitely live in the right place. One would argue, if you’re stubborn enough, you could fish a dry fly on ...

Fly fishing is more than just a hobby that begins and ends at the water's edge. —it's a unique culture with its own traditions, community, and language. I'll stop short of saying fly fishing defines ...

If you’ve been fishing the Fryingpan River lately, surely you’ve seen a few refusals from the trout in regards to your fly pattern. When we see the fish refusing naturals, we should take note as ...

As our local freestone rivers begin to drop in volume, we need to add a bit of stealth factor to our fly presentations and techniques to remain successful. There are just as many fish in the upper ...

Anglers tend to put a lot of stock in selecting the right dry fly to match a hatch. But, the truth is, the perfect fly won’t do you a whole lot of good if you don’t know how to present it. When it ...