When I first started trout fishing, I was given an invaluable piece of advice: start with dry flies. Talk to any trout angler, and they’ll tell you that fishing with subsurface flies simply catches ...

The cutthroat trout surfaced 100 feet below me, in a slick run where the creek worked its way along a steep talus slope. The fish was out of reach, for the moment. I had just broken out of dark timber ...

guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

Trout face upstream, so they can only see you if you’re upstream of them – right? Logical assumption, but not right. That might be the case if it were a human facing upstream, but trout have eyes that ...

The modern-day trout angler has a vast array of fly rods to choose from. As someone who’s spent far too much time in fly shops looking at and thinking about all these options, I understand how ...

Until we looked into the net and saw a bull trout. Dark-bodied with red spots and convoluted markings, the 14-inch fish had Mitchell and me shaking our heads in disbelief. Not the bruiser rainbow ...

Winter trout fishing now is available at Cosmo-Bethel Park, 4500 Bethel St., in Columbia. Columbia Parks and Recreation opened the program's season Friday. Anglers may only do catch-and-release with ...

This being a Leap Year, anglers have had to wait one more day for several lakes in the region to open for fishing. The first of March has traditionally been the day dozens of lakes in the Columbia ...