High June water levels required chest waders, but the brook trout he landed proved the effort was worthwhile. Credit: Courtesy of Bill Graves The BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These “old dog” trout flies don’t need new tricks to crush big fish. Evolution is a slow process. We tend to believe that the ...

Don't let a lack of knowledge stop you. These flies consistently catch trout, no matter the hatch or your fly fishing skill level. If it played out like it does in books and magazines, we would walk ...

To fly fish for trout effectively, it’s important to be familiar with the food sources that your flies are designed to imitate. Many of the best trout anglers double as amateur entomologists, studying ...

It’s March; spring is right around the corner (though, at the moment, you’d hardly know it) and while most of Colorado’s fly fishermen are anxiously looking forward to drifting dry flies and mayfly ...

More than 50 percent of the average trout’s diet consists of tiny midges, and it’s these microscopic insects that you’ll most likely find flying above local streams this month. But don’t knock ...

I’ve got a few tattoos, one of which is a trout—a big hook-jaw brown on my leg. It’s fair to say that trout are my favorite freshwater species, and I’ve been fishing for them since I was a wee tiny ...