Brook trout with fall colors caught on a stonefly. Photo by Geoff Schaake With New York state’s general trout season ending Oct. 15, anglers who want to continue to fish must switch to artificial ...

One of these caught fish, while the others didn't / Photo by Ken Baldwin Prime hopper season runs from late summer into early fall. When warm water and low flows slow the regular aquatic insect ...

If there is a more iconic Adirondack experience for a fly fisherman than finding a blue line on the map, hiking in and seeing if it contains brook trout, I haven’t come across one. This spring was ...

It was 6 a.m. on June 6, and veteran angler Shelby Holder was prowling the edges of the Hams Fork River in Wyoming. He was looking for rainbow trout, which he says were spawning at the time, but later ...

One of Montana's legendary trout flies, the girdle bug, was designed to imitate a large stonefly nymph, or "hellgrammite," as the local anglers on the Big Hole River call the big aquatic insects. Lost ...

Researchers have demonstrated a novel way to inscribe microscopic patterns on living organisms, using the resilient tardigrade as a model. The study, published in Nano Letters, explores a technique ...

Char can get big, but more impressive is their rich coloring. From giant Arctic Char to small native brookies, they resemble living paintings. Arctic char in Alaska can get big. My biggest to date on ...

All in all, you can’t go wrong with a black marabou, brass bead Wooly Bugger on a size 8 streamer hook, the writer suggests. (Illustration by Michael Kensinger) With the enthusiasm of the Pennsylvania ...

Smatterings of The Compleat Angler, The Bartender's Guide and Dear Abby dot this homespun first collection of offbeat fishing tales by an inveterate Montana fly fisherman who casts his obsessive ...

The Lake Erie Walleye Trail kicked off the spring fishing season around the Western Basin last Saturday, and plenty of trophy fish made it to the weigh-in scales at Magee East Marina near Port Clinton ...