Trout Magazine

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: The GFA Hopper

    For me and other dry-fly enthusiasts (and that's putting it mildly, at least in my opinion), this month is the month. It's "hopper time." Here in Idaho, our backcountry streams are in great shape–runoff is well past done, night-time temperatures are a bit chilly, whcih serves to keep our high-country streams cold. The warm summer…

  • Dunoir Fishing Adventures – In the Heart of Wyoming

    Dunoir – from the French “du noir," literally “of black.” The footprints of the French trappers faded long ago from the upper Wind River country in Wyoming. But the place names live on in the black timbered ridges of the Great Divide. You cross the Wind River above Dubois at the mouth of the Dunoir.…

  • Voices from the river

    Voices from the River: Extreme behavior

    The iconic Sundial Bridge, spanning the Lower Sacramento River in downtown Redding, California before and during the Carr Fire. By Sam Davidson California is burning. There are 17 wildfires charring the Golden State, at present. The biggest and gnarliest (of 2018, anyway) is the Carr Fire, which has torched more than 100,000 acres, mostly of…

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: How to spot rising trout

    At first blush, the idea of spotting rising trout seems pretty simple. But think about it for a minute—how many times, during low light, have you struggled to see exactly where rising trout are working, simply because you don't have the right background to help you differentiate between water m ovement and honest-to-God risers, sippers…