Off-colored water can make early-season angling difficult. Fly fishers with skills beyond the swift water know that looking ...

Once located, crappies are easily taken by fly presentations that include streamers, dry flies and even nymphs.

Yard sale season is in full swing with this great weather. Yard and estate sales are a great way to acquire fishing gear at a ...

Char can get big, but more impressive is their rich coloring. From giant Arctic Char to small native brookies, they resemble living paintings.

Gardiner's garbage grizzly: Food-conditioned bear killed outside Yellowstone ...

Traditional Spey fishing is closely associated with steelhead, salmon, and big rivers. It's a popular fly fishing technique ...

GOOD. Water normal stain; 70 degrees; 0.17 feet above pool. Crappie are fair on brush piles with minnows and jigs. Catfish are slow in 5-6 feet of water ...

The hot spots are on the north end around the Outhouse and Shannon while using leech pattern or egg pattern flies. Rainbows ... spawn sacks, beads, wooly buggers and leech patterns.

Girdle Bug flies were created to mimic stoneflies, like the one shown here. I like to tie Girdle Bugs with the same hooks used to create Wooly Buggers. Tube-shaped bodies of black, brown, dark-olive ...

Great new on Crappie, some decent catches this week in the 6-8 ‘ depth range on Bobby Garland type lures and also on a fly and live ... as well as olive wooly buggers size 8 and 10.