A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

Try a dry-dropper rig with a shallow-running wet fly or unweighted nymph. The emerger will address the trout’s preference for food just below the surface, and the dry fly will indicate the strike.

Be prepared for adjusting your rig. Fishing the middle column of the river calls for a fly selection that contains emergers. BWOs in the emerging stage are actively rising through the water column.

Not a nymph, not a dry fly, but somewhere in between. Fly fishing with emerger flies can be a game-changer during the early stages of a hatch.

Two-fly nymph rigs and dry dropper rigs can be found on every trout river in America – if you want to try something a little less mainstream, break out the double dry rig. I know – trout do ...

SALIDA — On an April morning filled with considerable promise, the Arkansas River was calling. Warm daytime weather was the forecast, though a pesky wind could kick up later. Best of all, a low ...

It no longer accommodated all those fly boxes accumulated over years of fishing, along with fly reels, spools of leader-tippet material, hemostats, broken stream thermometers, gum wrappers and the ...