Every time I fish a brook trout stream, I’m reminded why I have such a soft spot for them. I’m a sucker for dry fly eats, and a brook trout hits a dry fly like no other. The best thing about them?
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 ...
If you get the chance to fish for native brook trout in their home waters, don't pass it up. There’s a lot to like about brook trout – even if they're technically a char, not a trout. They sport ...
One day, my friend Pete Fleischman was driving in the sand country of central Wisconsin when a couple of Huck Finn look-alikes popped out of the trees. They were carrying fishing rods and something ...
Two of the most popular styles of freshwater angling here in New York and the Northeast, for that matter, bass and trout fishing, have a lot of differences. A surprisingly wide gulf. Maybe the ...
The brook trout, Salvelinus fontinalis, is an engaging fish. Nearly every trout fisher that I know, young and old alike, has fond memories concerning the beautiful little trout that inhabit most of ...
ALBANY, N.Y. — With thousands of miles of streams across the state, there are ample trout fishing opportunities in New York State. Each year the DEC stocks around 2.3 million catchable-size brook, ...
ALL-STAR CAST: Matt Barnes, a guide for Asheville Fly Fishing Co., fishes in the Watauga River. Photo by Emma Johnson “For the native trout,” Chamberlain wrote, “grand as he is, does not take kindly ...
If there is one given in the world of angling for fish, any fish, it is that big fish eat little fish. Bait anglers use ...
GAYLORD, Mich. – The Black River slipped through a pool in a grassy meadow, then narrowed and tumbled through an alder thicket. The low tree limbs obscured all but a 4-foot-wide corridor over the ...