This fall, fly fisherman Phil Gonzales landed the biggest rainbow trout of his life while tossing a lure with a spinning rod. “To be honest with you, I don’t even know what the lure was,” Gonzales ...

Finding the right trout rod can be a giant pain. Most of the spinning rods you’ll find on the market were designed for bass fishing or trolling. These rods are usually too heavy, long, or stiff for ...

Fly reels for trout fishing serve two main roles: To hold your fly line and backing and to have a drag capable of tiring out a fish during a fight. Pairing the right reel with your fly rod will help ...

Great day of trout fishing on this late winter fishing day. The ice has thawed so we've hung up our ice fishing rods and hit ...

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In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.

It was 6 a.m. on June 6, and veteran angler Shelby Holder was prowling the edges of the Hams Fork River in Wyoming. He was looking for rainbow trout, which he says were spawning at the time, but later ...

Using the right fishing line for trout can increase your success. Trout are fun to catch, but they’re challenging, too. They have great eyesight with soft and small mouths, eat relatively small things ...

If someone had asked me a month ago if I wanted to catch a bass on a fly rod, I’d say sure, but it wasn’t really a goal. Then Josh suggested hitting some of Wyoming’s lesser-known reservoirs as my ...

Texas will stock public waters — including the Trinity River and several locations in Dallas-Fort Worth ― with hundreds of thousands of rainbow trout over the next few months. Between Nov. 26 and ...

Kamchatka Penisula, Russia - Late last August, we were sentenced to Siberia to do some fly fishing for trophy rainbow trout in northeast Russia. A group of us were put on the weekly Saturday-morning ...