Prime hopper season runs from late summer into early fall. When warm water and low flows slow the regular aquatic insect hatches, trout start looking elsewhere for calories. The good news is that ...

Although wet flies will take trout from deep pools and cold spring inlets, they are most effective when fished through ...

Traditionally fished in the down-and-across presentation common to wet flies, the natural materials of a soft hackle fly impart dramatic and lifelike motion in river currents, resembling mayflies and ...

While picking up mail at the post office recently, I crossed paths with a local fly fishing acquaintance and stopped to chat.

With places like Jackson’s County Fly Fishing Trail, the brown trout blessed Watauga River and plenty of other rivers, creeks, and small streams, North Carolina is quickly becoming a more prevalent ...