The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife wants to make its Columbia River Salmon and Steelhead Endorsement permanent. Anglers fishing the Columbia and many of its Washington tributaries for ...

Cory Cuje of Old Dominion Trout Bum fishes a pressured Pennsylvania limestone stream on a warm, sunny June day, when low, clear water and spooky fish called for fishing well outside the rod tip. Euro ...

Two of this week’s flies are for trout, and the other two head for the coast. Moonlit Fly Fishing’s Backcountry Halo Golden Stone is a buoyant foam dry built for broken water. Its segmented body comes ...

In winter, the wind-blown bank is worth checking for bass on a sunny afternoon after stable weather, when a moderate wind builds a mudline (a band of stained water) off a point, and on lakes where ...

If the person on your list wants to catch bass on a fly rod and lives near ponds full of bluegill, a 9-foot 6-weight outfit (a rod, reel and fly line sold together) is the one to wrap. It’s light ...

A chain of small articulated shanks, linked eye to eye, lets a Game Changer bend along its whole length. A body that’s fullest at the head and thinnest at the tail makes the rear sections swing as the ...

Bill Ward has said he tied the first marabou crappie jig in 1957, for his father, Virgil Ward, who wanted a jig like the marabou streamers trout anglers were fishing on Arkansas’s White River. The ...

On a two-handed rod, the wind decides which side of your body the anchor and D-loop belong on, and that tells you which change-of-direction cast to make. When the wind is blowing upriver, toward the ...

On an overcast winter steelhead river, you’ll rarely see a fish, even with polarized lenses. What those lenses can do, however, is show you where the seams run, where the bottom drops and where your ...

A budget winter steelhead trip costs about $1,500 for one angler over a week when you drive to a Great Lakes destination like New York’s Salmon River, fish public water on foot, and book one guided ...

Jetty fly fishing starts with reading waves and tide before you walk out, since a wave coming over the rock can take you in no matter how good your footing is. Then fish it with traction matched to ...

For most saltwater flies, a coated high-carbon hook is a better choice than stainless. At the same wire diameter, carbon is the stronger steel, so the hook can be finer and still hold a big fish.