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• Fishing Trout Talk

  Tip – Lake fishing

  

  Runoff is in full swing across much of the west making our typical fishing outings on rivers tough and potentially dangerous. Simon Gawesworth with Far Bank Fly Fishing School walks us through how to find fish in a lake, gear, casts, retrieves and how to fish different flies. Give this video a watch and then…

• Fishing The True Cast Trout Talk

  The True Cast – catch an angler this season.

  

  Nobody gets to where they are in the fly-fishing world without a little nudge, or connection, or instruction, or inspiration. As such, when I am fishing, I often think about mentors like my dad, who put the first fly rod in my hands when we lived on the banks of the Little Lehigh in Pennsylvania.…

• Fishing Trout Talk

  Tip – Dry fly fishing

  

  Tom Rosenbauer teaches us a bit more about dry fly fishing, which is many anglers’ favorite method of fishing. There's nearly nothing better than an active trout eating dries. He goes over when to fish with dry flies in terms of times of year, when aquatic or terrestrial insects are present and then what to…

• Fishing The True Cast Trout Talk

  The True Cast – Does Angler Pressure Affect What Trout Eat?

  

  I absolutely love fishing with streamer flies. After all, streamers elicit a predatory response, particularly when trout fishing. Streamers are what turn a trout’s instinct dial from meek and mild dun sippers and nymph inhalers to full-on carnivorous beasts. And mouse flies! It’s one thing to hear a trout crash on a fly at night,…

• From the President

  The best guides

  

  Pete Wood, who after interning with TU became a lawyer in Idaho, taught me to tie my first bread fly (from an old kitchen sponge, and it was deadly on Potomac River carp). I caught my largest native rainbow in Alaska last year with Brian Bowe at the Alaska Sportsman’s Lodge. Pat Berry, who now leads…

• Fishing Trout Talk

  Tip – Locating Trout

  

  Tom Rosenbauer from Orvis walks us through where to find trout in a typical river. Think focal points and feeding lanes when fishing pocket water, and then consider where to best release a fish. Hopefully these tips help you find more trout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgUz5wpyGPI&list=PLEXZljM8NmhtGMQuVaaJ9TZq3SZY74R_5&index=3

• Fishing The True Cast Trout Talk

  The True Cast – same gear different sports

  

  Fly fishing in rivers and on saltwater flats are worlds apart. I often daydream about fly fishing for trout. But my night dreams inevitably involve tarpon. Like over 90 percent of fly anglers, I got my start on a little river chasing trout. But I’m now an “anadromous” fisherman, migrating back and forth from salt…