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 ...

Two-fly nymph rigs and dry dropper rigs can be found on every trout river in America – if you want to try something a little less mainstream, break out the double dry rig. I know – trout do more than ...

Our fall and early winter fishing season is in full swing. At no other time of year can such a multitude of fishing styles be effective on the water. Blue-wing olive mayflies are still hatching, ...

For the past 30-plus years I have been nymph fishing in the same manner: using a strike indicator, placing my split shot above the nymph(s) and tying the nymphs in line. I have been putting enough ...

Nymph fishing is undoubtedly the most effective method for catching trout. Unfortunately, the way that most people do it isn’t terribly entertaining. In my experience, you can only watch a strike ...

Hungry trout taking dry flies off the water surface is like poetry in motion to anglers and by far the most obvious cue to set the hook. Exhilaration aside, hatches don’t always cooperate and ...

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 ...