Kristen Patrocky holding a female rainbow that she landed this month at Spinney Reservoir while using a tandem nymph rig with a large Thingamabobber strike indicator. Photo by Jon Kleis, Special to ...

Admitting to my affinity for nymphing seems like confessing I prefer Darth Vader over Luke Skywalker. But there was a block ...

FISHING — Strike indicators are especially important to fall fly fishing as surface activity tapers off on the region’s trout stream. The guides at Red’s Fly Shop on the Yakima River have prepared the ...

When you’re getting ready to cast your fishing line, are you adding a bobber, float or strike indicator? Bobbers have come a long way from being just a plastic red and white ball sitting a couple feet ...

What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout? If your answer is casting a bug imitation that floats and then watching a fish rise to sip it off the surface, I’d say you fall in with the ...

For the last 15 years or so, Euro nymphing has exploded in the United States. It was a byproduct of American competition fly anglers competing in Europe then bringing the techniques they learned back ...

Nymph fishing is undoubtedly the most effective method for catching trout. Unfortunately, the way that most people do it isn’t terribly entertaining. In my experience, you can only watch a strike ...

guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

Successful nymphing starts with your setup. A two-fly nymph rig is often the way to go – it allows you to cover a wider range of the water column, and it adds variety to your patterns. I’ll typically ...

Fly fishing is synonymous with trout. When most people think about fly fishing, they conjure images of mountain streams and fish sipping mayflies and caddisflies off the surface. It’s true that the ...

Variety is the spice of life, and in fly-fishing there's no shortage of variety when it comes to the gear someone might use on the river. And if you're the type of angler who experiments with ...