Nothing is more blood-pressure raising to me than pinning a big trout on an itty-bitty dry fly. Scoring the take is the fun part ... anglers often worry about the strength of the tippet material ...

Who wouldn't want to throw two dry flies? A double dry rig is a great way to improve your fly fishing.

When you cast a weighted subsurface fly, the weight of the fly does a lot of the work for you. When you cast a dry fly, it forces you to learn to load the rod and send your line in the other ...

How to Set It Up The key to a good dry dropper rig is making sure that your two flies work well together. If you’re going to fish a beadhead nymph, make sure to use a bigger dry fly that can ...

Fishing with a dry fly allows you to observe exactly how the drift goes – if your line drags, you’ll see it. This immediate feedback goes a long way towards perfecting your fly presentation.

The leader-butt diameter should be two-thirds of the diameter of the end of your fly line for best performance. The 5-weight fly line you may use for fishing small dry flies has a tip diameter of ...

When dead-drifting a dry fly isn’t working, it pays to remember that living bugs move—they hop, dart, flutter, and twitch on the surface. You can use that to your advantage by skating ...