The Muddler Minnow is arguably the most famous and well used pattern in the fly fishing world of angling. It is regularly used to catch every trout species and just about everything else that swims.

FLINT TOWNSHIP – Anyone who’s ever spent much time in the company of fly fishers knows they go through stages of growth as predictable as the metamorphosis of a mayfly from nymph to full-blown hatch.

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 ...

FLINT, MI--According to Stan Blood, secretary for the The Greater Flint Muddler Minnows, Genesee County's "best undiscovered gem," literally runs straight through it: the Flint River. "There's ...

WAUPACA COUNTY (WLUK) -- The opening of the state inland fishing season is Saturday. Over the next 12 months about 1.3 million anglers will take to the waters of Wisconsin, 26 percent of those are ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Eight years ago on a Maine fly-fishing bulletin board, a young fly-fishing ...

FLUSHING – Dirk Fischbach wrote the book on fly fishing for smallmouth bass on the Huron River. Literally; “The Fly Fisher’s Huron: A Practical Guide to Michigan’s Blue Ribbon Smallmouth River” sold ...

Keeping some sort of flashy dropper below your dry fly will increase your hook-up rate considerably. You’ll take more small trout this way, but the larger ones like it, too. WDFW and the Master Hunter ...

Other than a few cold snaps, this winter has been on the mild side, or so it seems to me. Still, it’s been cold enough to keep most ponds and reservoirs iced over. Although at this point in time, I ...