Fishing closed on the upper Beaverhead River Sept. 1 as Clark Canyon Dam operators began cutting outflows to winter levels about a month early, and three conservation groups have asked a state judge ...

This week’s lineup runs two streamers alongside two small trout patterns. We open with the Gray Squirrel Zonker Streamer from Lucian Vasies, a late-summer and autumn favorite of his for big trout, ...

Fall bull redfish move onto Louisiana's clear, shallow marsh flats Oct–Feb. How to time a trip to the front cycle, where to ...

Most days it shows up as a run of refusals. You’re getting drifts you’d swear are good over steadily rising fish, and nothing eats, and the reflex is to go smaller and lighter. Sometimes that’s right.

As fall water cools toward the low 40s, the two adjustments that matter most for fall steelhead swing flies are slowing the fly down and getting it deeper to the fish’s holding level; fly size and ...

Why does a proven fall spot produce one morning and go quiet the next, when the tide chart looks the same both days? A tide chart marks water height, the times the water sits highest and lowest. What ...

The saltwater outfit you already own barely changes when you move from the beach to a boat during the fall run. A 9-weight, a reel with a strong drag and plenty of backing, a box of Clousers and ...

Try This Week’s Quiz! Musky and Pike Flies: Can You Cast Them Without the Ache?

Tie deer-hair divers and sliders for fall bass: hair physics, GSP thread, hook and packing specs, weed-guard alignment, and ...

To control a swung fly in high, fast water, size the belly of your line to the current instead of trying to remove it. The belly is the downstream bow the current pushes into your fly line, and it is ...

Tie and fish the Partridge and Orange soft-hackle for fall trout: sparse hackle, orange silk bodies, sizing for October caddis and BWOs, plus the wet-fly swing.