More than 50 percent of the average trout’s diet consists of tiny midges, and it’s these microscopic insects that you’ll most likely find flying above local streams this month. But don’t knock ...

When I sneaked away for a few hours’ fishing on a lower Hudson Valley year-round stream the last Sunday in November, I was hoping to convince a trout or two to eat a nymph. Post-Thanksgiving trout ...

During the winter, food sources in the river run lean. Midges are the predominant insect that keep trout moving in the cold months. While present in the watershed all year round, winter is where ...

Winter trout fishing is a funny thing. Some people love it because the crowds are gone, and they can bank on having long stretches of great water all to themselves. Other people hang up the trout gear ...

You gotta be tough to be a midge. Midges are teeny-tiny insects that hatch on rivers and streams. Wings and all, they're not much bigger than the tip of a ball-point pen. Yet even in the cold months ...

Dragonflies are hard to miss. Big, fast, and buzzing over trout streams like little helicopters, they’re the opposite of subtle. If a trout can pick out a size 22 mayfly, it certainly isn’t blind to a ...

Spring and Fall are the two best seasons to fly fish the Rockies / photo by Jasper Taback When the birds begin to sing, the last of the ski bums ship out, and winter-weary trout anglers return to the ...

Fryingpan River: Currently flowing at 114 CFS below Ruedi Reservoir. Fishing reports have been very good and there is minimal fishing pressure this time of year. The river is flowing low and clear ...