The carbon fiber construction gives anglers the lightweight feel of a single-handed net with the added reach of a long-handled net. A bulletproof aluminum net, the Rising’s Brookie XL pairs an ...

ASHEVILLE – This is no big fish tale. Rather it’s the reality that trout fishing creates big business for Western North Carolina. A study released last week, conducted by Responsive Management and ...

Meticulous, methodical, Joe Armstrong leans over a special heating tool to bend a long thin steamed poplar strip as he begins forming a new trout fishing net. “This is the hardest place to get right,” ...

I have an $80 trout net. I bought it for $30 from a fly shop in Telluride that was anxious to unload what turned out to be the albatross of merchandise.The shopkeeper referred to it as the racquet of ...

My style of float fishing doesn't depend on rattles and gurgles. While rattle and chugger floats are wonderful trout fishing tools, these noisy floats seem to work better during the fall trout bite, ...

IONE – Anthony Bettencourt of Vacaville had given up trout fishing for the morning around 9:30 a.m. when he decided to start fishing for black bass from his kayak at Lake Amador on April 23 during the ...

When the whistle blew on the morning of March 1, trout season opened in Missouri. I was standing under the bridge at Montauk State Park. On both sides of me, other anglers were a rod length away, and ...