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 ...

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 ...

JIM THORPE, Pa. — We'll sit down with expert fly tyer Tom Lienhard and watch as he ties up a sulfur emerger dry fly ...

Dodging raindrops continues to be the way it is. The bugs are still hatching, but be prepared to change fishing tactics to match the weather. So far, so good on most waters. Pennsylvania Fish and B… ...

The Alabama Rig is a popular system or "lure" that mimics a small school of baitfish swimming together. Bass feed heavily on schooling baitfish, and the Alabama Rig was invented to take advantage ...