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, ...

A couple of years ago, I was fishing with a group of fly fishermen that included two or three younger guys in their mid to ...

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With fall quickly approaching, now is the perfect time to share one of my favorite fly-fishing nymph patterns. The fly is called Shy's Shucking Midge, and it's a pattern my friend Jeff Shy tied for ...

Last week, I spent a couple of days fly-fishing for trout on several streams here in central Pennsylvania with my friend Todd Justus of Chapel Hill, N.C. On our first morning together, we fished ...

The salmonfly hatch has come and gone and the varieties of imitations of this fly are vast and growing. But the nymphs for next year's hatch are already in the rivers. One of the earliest and most ...

The Timberline Nymph grew from the fertile mind of Randal Kauffman, a noted author and expert on still water fly fishing. Selecting a pattern for lake fishing is mostly a matter of hatch matching.

There are thousands of individual fly patterns designed just for catching trout and thousands more created to catch different species of fish. All of these different types, sizes, colors and styles of ...