Bring your dry fly fishing to a new level with these tips and tricks.

If the fly you’ve been fishing is brand new and riding high on the water, it might be as simple as switching to a similar fly with some wear and tear. A crippled insect is an easy meal for a ...

Along the way, I was one of several outdoor writers who helped popularize new techniques for nymphing. The older dry fly fishers said nymphing was nothing more than bait fishing.

Dry Fly Fishing - Other times, it may be best just to use a standard dry fly fishing style. In dry fly fishing, the line is used to float insects on the surface of the water.

To set the scene, I had a buddy fishing a two-fly dry-fly rig. The lead fly was a size 12 Stimulator —a big bug that might look like a terrestrial or a stonefly, although its basic mission is to ...

Theodore Gordon, also known as “the Father of American Dry Fly Fishing,” first tied hatch-specific flies to match the insects hatching in the Neversink and Beaverkill rivers in the 1860s.

A good fly reel will last a lifetime and help bring countless fish to hand. Fly fishing at its most basic level is just another technique for catching fish. On a deeper level, it’s both a blood ...

Fishing Dry and Wet Rosenbauer's tips: In the spring the fish tend to congregate in the slower sections of the rivers and not in the fast-moving (and colder) riffles.