The Griffith’s Gnat is an ingeniously simple dry fly midge imitation. Tied with grizzly hackle palmered over a peacock herl body, it can mimic a single midge in smaller sizes or a cluster of ...

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 ...

Anglers miss so much of what is happening under water. We spend a lot of time trying to hide things like split shot and ...

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 ...

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 ...

With 6,000 miles of streams and more than 1,300 lakes and reservoirs in Colorado where anglers can fish for over 35 species of fish, it’s hard to narrow down just a few recommendations of where ...

What are midge flies? Midges are tiny, non-biting flies that emerge near water bodies, including Lake Michigan. They have one pair of long, narrow wings and often travel in swarms.

Midges rise out of the Great Lakes each spring as water temperatures warm. Millions descended upon a Lake Michigan lighthouse this week.

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 ...