To fly fish for trout effectively, it’s important to be familiar with the food sources that your flies are designed to imitate. Many of the best trout anglers ...

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 ...

Every spring, adult midge flies emerge by the Milwaukee lakefront in giant swarms to mate, procreate and lay their eggs in Lake Michigan. Architecture as a recruiting tool: University of ...

Fly fishing requires specialized tackle, namely fly rods and fly lines, to cast lightweight lures known as flies—which traditionally imitated insects but can now imitate a vast array of fish food. The ...

Mel Whitson, director of sales for Central Life Sciences, details how Strike® products break the life cycles of midges and filter flies to prevent future generations from ...

The trout-approved Rubber Legs fly. / Photo by Jasper Taback I like to fish dry flies. It’s not that I dislike nymph fishing, but there’s something truly special about watching a trout rise to ...

Flies that imitate midge pupa, ... A challenge with dry fly midge fishing—other than tying a size 22 fly on your tippet—can be simply seeing the fly on the water's surface.

Femrite said the waterborne flies live for about 24 hours, but he said they lay thousands of eggs. “There’s millions of these midge fly larvae that grow out of our final clarifiers,” he said.

If you’re fishing a smaller dry, you’ll want to have a lighter dropper fly so it doesn't pull the smaller dry fly under – think pheasant tail, RS2, or zebra midge. Finding a combination that ...

My love of dry flies never seems to wane. Even in the dead of winter, if the sun is on the water and I see I rise, there is a little childish excitement that begins to pulse through my body. Given ...

1. Select the Right Fishing Rod, Reel, and Line. Before learning to cast or selecting flies, the first step to fly-fishing is ...

Every spring, adult midge flies emerge by the Milwaukee lakefront in giant swarms to mate, ... The insects cannot fly well into a moving air current due to their tiny body mass.