There's an old joke in the ranks of Bighorn River fishing guides that goes: "There are old guides and there are bold guides - but Frank Johnson is too old to be bold!" Just kidding, Frank. The truth ...

Knowing the stages of development in a bug’s life is a critical component to successful fly fishing. Deciphering the hatch on a river is a challenging game. Larva, pupa or adult stages have been ...

Summertime and the living is easy. Especially for the trout, when the river is bringing food on the current. One of the most reliable hatches on our Western streams is the caddis in all its variety.

Emergers and nymphs are often lumped together because they’re both fished subsurface, and they both imitate aquatic insects in pre-adult life stages. Some nymphs and emergers may look similar, but ...

Trout don’t have a chance anymore. Fly-fishing pros Jim Schollmeyer and Ted Leeson have teamed up to produce the definitive work on how to tie flies that could fool a fly. Those picky trout that ...

JIM THORPE, Pa. — We'll sit down with expert fly tyer Tom Lienhard and watch as he ties up a sulfur emerger dry fly.

If you find yourself stumped by picky trout with any regularity, it’s probably time for you to learn how to fish a soft hackle fly. These time-tested patterns are characterized by their wispy, “buggy” ...