Consejos y tutoriales
The gray, drizzly day that makes the couch look good is often the best trout fishing of the week. What cloud cover, cold fronts, wind and rain actually change on the water, what the barometer is really telling you, and how we'd adjust for each — including the bright, cold day after a front.
Cooler mornings are a good excuse to make room in the fly box. What to set aside as terrestrial season winds down, what stays in year round, the small mayflies, midges and streamers worth adding, and how to give the summer flies some care before they go on the shelf.
The lake looks the same as it did a month ago. It isn't. A complete guide to fall stillwater — following the water temperature, reading the shoreline, finding the depth, and the eight flies that cover a cooling lake.
A standard leech hangs nose-down under an indicator. A balanced leech hangs level — the posture a cruising trout actually recognizes as food. Learn how the pin-and-bead system works, how to fish it under an indicator, and which of seven black, brown, and olive patterns to tie on.
Camp's set up, the kids are antsy, and it's finally time to get a line in the water. Here's the good news: nobody needs a perfect cast for this to go well. The first fly cast a kid ever makes is never pretty — a little sideways, a little short, maybe straight into the weeds instead of past them. And then — almost every time — something eats it anyway.
