Trout Magazine

  • Featured Trout Tips

    Terrestrial bugs offer great dry-fly fishing on small creeks

    Late summer and early fall offer some of the season's best dry-fly fishing on small creeks in the east. This isn't hatch-matching fishing. It's terrestrial season

    Most years, Virginia’s small mountain trout streams have become unfishable trickles by August. This year has been a bit different. Massive rains in May and June meant the streams were in great shape heading into summer’s peak, which was a good thing because July brought record heat and a strange lack of the almost-daily thunderstorms…

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    Matt Heron Fly Fishing takes you to the Truckee

    I suppose there are people – perhaps many people – who do not immediately think of fly-fishing when the hear the word “California." There was a time when I might not have, either. But I’m over that now, mostly because of great people like my friend Matt Heron. Matt started his fly-fishing career over two…

  • Featured Fishing Trout Tips

    Fly fishing doesn’t have to be hard

    I love to cast a long line, but it doesn’t happen often. If I do, it is ideally with no false casts. The longer my fly is in the air, the more likely it will be caught by a bush. Fewer false casts also means my fly is in or on the water in front of fish longer

    By Jim Strogen I loved "A River Runs Through It." I had been fly fishing about 30 years before I saw the film, and appreciated the artistry in Jason Borger's casts -- Borger was the "double" for Brad Pitt, and he's the one casting in the movie. When I see new fly fishers getting started,…