Don't let a lack of knowledge stop you. These flies consistently catch trout, no matter the hatch or your fly fishing skill level. Like gems in the water. / photo by Ken Baldwin If it played out like ...

John Garrison works to quickly release a bull trout after it was caught on a chunk of herring while fishing the Deschutes Arm of Lake Billy Chinook in Oregon.

It made no sense. It was midsummer in the Northern Rockies, and the water was so clear you had to blink twice to convince yourself that there was any in the river bed at all. The stream-side brush was ...

If it played out like it does in books and magazines, we would walk up to the creek or river, have a look at the water, sit ...