In the beginning of your fly fishing journey, the most common concept of fly fishing is floating a "bug"-like fly on the top of the water to induce a fish to strike. The fly is supposed to represent a ...

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BILLINGS – If you’ve ever wondered about the water quality in a stream, river or lake you are fishing, just ask a mayfly. Mayflies are winged insects that spend the early stages of their life ...

FISHING the mayfly season is perhaps the most enjoyable and productive time of year for any trout angler. It is a time when trout go wild for this short-life insect that stimulates its growth and ...

At Lake Davis, a midsummer's night dream has emerged on what was once the grandest of stages of Sierra Nevada lakes. Several times in the past few weeks, a fog-like eruption of giant mayflies hatched ...

Rivers continue to be one of the better fishing options at this time. Flows, for the most part, are perfect, water temperatures are still good, and excellent hatches are occurring with regularity.

‘THE smaller ones are bigger over here!” Jackie Coyne said as he steered our boat to the northern shoreline close to Cloghans Bay. How right he was. Throughout the day, numerous trout came to our team ...

Some anglers tie patterns with luminescent materials to help them see night strikes, said Walker Scarborough of the Missoulian Angler fly shop. Using a headlamp while fishing, he said, is not a good ...