George Daniel walks through dropshot nymphing, where a split shot hangs below your flies and does the work of getting them down. That lets you fish lighter nymphs that drift more naturally and snag ...

If your forward cast feels off, think about how you’d throw a paper airplane. That’s what Capt. Chris Myers suggests visualizing when working on your casting technique, keeping your hand and forearm ...

Squirmy Worms are known for falling apart, and Montana Fly Company built Trina’s Squirm Material to fix just that. In this tutorial, MFC ties a two-tone version on a jig hook with a tungsten bead that ...

Cheech of Fly Fish Food packs three tying techniques into this Skill Builder. You’ll see how to get big beads to sit right on jig hooks, when to reach for crosscut rabbit strips over standard ones, ...

Colorado voters have turned down Amendment 83, which would have written a right to hunt, fish, and harvest wildlife into the state constitution and made hunting and fishing the preferred means of ...

Answer: To fish a fly on the swing, you cast across or down and across the current and let the line come tight. From there, the current pulls the fly across the river in an arc until it hangs straight ...

A run of El Niño-driven storms has pushed Colorado’s statewide snowpack to 125 percent of average as of Nov. 3, and the San Juan Mountains are carrying their highest total for that date since 2005, ...

Charlie’s back with his monthly fly-roundup. For November, his picks cover when low water puts the best fishing on the tailwaters. He starts with small Baetis and midge patterns like the purple ...

Moonlit Fly Fishing spins five zonker strips through the same dubbing loop: mink, weasel, rabbit, nutria, and squirrel. One builds bulk quickly, one flares out stiff, and another stays slim. A ...

Another great Skill Builder from Fly Fish Food to keep in your back pocket for the winter months at the vise ahead. Cheech breaks down three techniques: building segmented latex bodies without resin, ...

Martin Langlands of Troutlands came up with this swimming mayfly nymph, an original pattern for a bug you’ll find in plenty of backcountry rivers in New Zealand and beyond.

Yvon Chouinard demonstrates how he fishes a flymph, a wingless fly that’s part wet fly, part nymph. He casts it up and across the river, lets it sink, then twitches it every now and then as it drifts.