Tag: trout

Fly Fishing Strategy Tips

Choosing Flies Size Matters When choosing trout flies, the relative importance of fly characteristics in your selection, in order, should be: size, shape, color, and action (for stripped flies). In saltwater, action is often more important than exact size and shape. Dropper Flies or Tandem Rigs Dropper flies are a trout angler's secret weapon. A simple...

"Fly Fishing Brown Trout in Small Streams at Maruia, Part 1"

"Brown trout fly fishing in small streams is exciting. Hunting brown trout is a game of poking about the likely holding water in a trout stream, looking for a rising brown trout, spotting the brown trout or prospecting. Stalking rising and cruising brown trout takes on a whole new level of fly fishing in trout streams and in this video, the first episode of...

"How to Fly Fish Trout Streams: Tips, Tactics & Discussion - Backwater Cyclers"

"Fly fishing for brown trout often requires stealth and dedication and time to allow things to unfold on trout streams. Stalking rising and cruising brown trout takes on a whole new level of fly fishing in trout streams, in particular, back waters. The engagement can often be intense. In this video we lead with a short, on the water video that examines fly...

Fly Fishing Tip: Nymphing Stained Water

"In this video, I'm going to share why I look forward to Fly Fishing Stained Water. Rather than, telling you, I'm going to show you. I'll compare two different days in the exact locations. One day with clear water and the other after a rain event that stained the water. The results speak for themselves. Gin clear water usually means trout are going to hold...

"Stalking Brown Trout Under Willow Cover"

"Fly fishing for brown trout is one of the hilights of trout stream anglers. Stalking rising and cruising brown trout takes on a whole new level of fly fishing in trout streams. Add overhead cover like heavy bushes, and the engagement is intense and intimate. In this video we lead with a short, on the water video that examines stalking brown tout under...

"Succinct": How to Fly Fish Spring Creeks

"This video takes a dramatic, fun turn we can all relate to! 😊🤣 There are a million fly fishing tips to spring creeks. Your approach and presentation are critical but at the same time there's just some fish that don't want to play ball. Whether it's your approach angle or recent angling pressure, the trout simply doesn't like something and moves off...

Strategies for Fooling Suspended Trout

In an article that ran in the August print version of Fly Fisherman Magazine, Pat Dorsey details some great tactics for targeting suspended trout. These are the fish you see midway in the water column, but aren't sure exactly how to fish for them, or which flies to use. Dorsey takes you through a few tricks you can use next time you find suspended trout...

"The Search" - How to Fish Tailing Trout in a Spring Creek

"Spring creeks offer diverse fly fishing. Trout often sit in the weeds in incredibly shallow water to feed on emerging or drifting insects. In this video Dave takes on an epic fish in shallow - watch the subtle details of how he approaches the fish and finally manages to get this brown trout to eat... and the steps to get this one 'to hand'."

"It Never Gets Old": How to Fly Fish Undercut Banks

"Amelia does a masterful job of getting in great position to lay a short cast to an undercut bank holding rainbow trout. Undercut banks can give you a lot of fits - first you have to find trout holding then you have to get in the right position to work in tight with good casting, line control and hook set in order to get these hot fish to hand. Let's have a...

New Company "TroutRoutes" Launches Mapping App

Anyone who enjoys exploring new fishing spots knows that it can be difficult and time-consuming to find and access quality trout streams.  A new software company called TroutRoutes is looking to change that. Zach Pope, founder of TroutRoutes, has made it his life’s mission to map out every trout stream in the country, as well as all of the detail needed...