If you think about fly fishing or river fishing in general, chances are that a brown trout comes to mind. Catching a big brown is the pinnacle for many trout anglers, whether fishing with fly gear or ...

Leave the fly rod and grab the muck boots. For an interesting take on brook trout angling, make for the hardwoods instead of the main stream. These quick tips on catching small creek, under the radar ...

There are two situations for which a 7.5-foot leader is a great choice: fishing small streams and streamer fishing. On small streams, a shorter leader lets you turn your fly over faster and cast more ...

Tom Rosenbauer reached down to his laptop, and a picture of a tiny cascade of water splashing down stones appeared on the projector screen. “Would you stop and fish a stream that small?” he asked the ...

It is that time of the year when we start looking at the melting snow in our yards and the countryside and wonder when the spring run-off will end so that the streams will settle down and clear up.

Dragonflies are hard to miss. Big, fast, and buzzing over trout streams like little helicopters, they’re the opposite of subtle. If a trout can pick out a size 22 mayfly, it certainly isn’t blind to a ...

When the General Assembly of Pennsylvania officially made the brook trout the state fish, March 9, 1970, there wasn’t really another candidate worthy of consideration. While it’s common these days for ...

Saturday is the regular inland trout opener. The New York Power Authority has announced its fishing facilities are open early. This includes the popular fishing platform in the gorge. Too bad the ...

Western New York is blessed with outstanding fishing resources, starting with the Great Lakes waters of Erie, Ontario and Niagara River. Let’s not forget the tributaries to those lakes, as well as ...