guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

Traditional Spey fishing is closely associated with steelhead, salmon, and big rivers. It's a popular fly fishing technique in the Pacific Northwest that requires long rods, special lines, and ...

Midday will be the best local option to find a few trout on area rivers. Don't expect a lot of action. Stick with the standard winter tactics — dredging double nymph rigs, streamers fished slowly and ...

The majority of the time, a single fly is the best presentation for success when fly fishing. An individual fly floats seemingly untethered, more at the mercy of the river currents. Even a single ...

The water is high. Conditions are rough. Anglers still wanting to fish are dredging flies down deep to locate trout that still have to eat. The best way to get to the fish and double your chances for ...

Try double nymph rigs with stonefly nymphs like Double Beads, Jig Princes, Rubberlegs and 20 Inchers. Throw a San Juan or Perdigon off the back. Dead drifting streamers like Zonkers, Squirdles, ...

Frigid morning temperatures have kept fish activity at a minimum on area rivers, but the bite picks up somewhat in the afternoon. Deep dredging with double nymph rigs and streamers will entice some ...