The 5B Anglers November fly-tying workshop, one of a series of fly-tying workshops offered this winter at Hailey Town Center ...

Wherever mountain streams run clean and support wild trout, anglers chase them with the Humpy. Originally named the “Horner Deer Hair Fly” after its creator Jack Horner sometime in the 1940s the Humpy ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Lew Souder with his trophy big horn sheep. On the same trip, he caught a 9.5 pound rainbow trout ...

The secret to great fly fishing? According to Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard and Blue Ribbon Flies owner and founder Craig Mathews, it all comes down to simplicity. Speaking at Montana State ...

Knowing the stages of development in a bug’s life is a critical component to successful fly fishing. Deciphering the hatch on a river is a challenging game. Larva, pupa or adult stages have been ...

Behningia baei McCafferty & Jacobus, 2006. A. Fine sand grains from the microhabitat. B. Live specimen, dorsal view. C. Live specimen, sand burrowing behaviour. D. Live specimen, ventral view. (Image: ...

I have a new favorite nymph pattern that I have dubbed — pun intended — Dan’s Killer Rubber Leg Nymph. For those of you unfamiliar with fly tying terminology, dubbing is a common fly-tying material, ...

To fly fish for trout effectively, it’s important to be familiar with the food sources that your flies are designed to imitate. Many of the best trout anglers double as amateur entomologists, studying ...

Reviews were mixed from the anglers I spoke to. Some caught them on big, bushy dry flies, others not at all. The reports held true that the salmonflies were here but cool weather and rain had stifled ...

Shucks and spinners, imagos and duns, clingers and burrowers ... You would need a dictionary to decode the language of the mayfly and the many terms describing its life stages. These insects spend ...

This story, “Getting the Bait’s a Bail,” appeared in the May 1970 issue of Outdoor Life. The morning sparkled as bright and shiny as a new dime. The river was clear and purling along, its voices ...