Last week, I offered some suggestions on assembling a basic assortment of nymph patterns for early-season trout in our region. This week, I’ll present a similar discussion targeting dry-fly patterns.

Decisions, decisions. If you’re a fly angler, you have lots to make. Yes, there are plenty of different lures on tackle-shop shelves, but not nearly as many as there are different fly patterns in well ...

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For most people, fall means football. For John Rodriguez of Salem fall means fly fishing. Rodriguez is known as "Mr. Bugology" for his mini match-the-hatch clinics that serve as a preamble to Santiam ...

For the longest time, anglers would tell me that what they landed their fish on was a San Juan worm. And even though I used various worm patterns, I never could seem to catch anything on one. Of ...

With thousands of fly patterns available these days, finding ones you can rely on day in and day out becomes daunting. Every angler has those “confidence patterns” in their fly boxes that they can ...

On July 1, 1924, Carrie G. Stevens cast a homemade fishing fly into the outlet of Mooselookmeguntic Lake and netted a 6-pound, 13-ounce brook trout. Her Gray Ghost — featuring white hairs from a ...

Bozeman-area fly-fishing guide, fly designer and tyer Willy Self will be tying and demonstrating his lake fly patterns at East Rosebud Fly and Tackle on Saturday from 1-3 p.m. East Rosebud Fly and ...