If you’re looking for giant fish or huge numbers of fish, small stream trout fishing probably isn’t for you. Small streams require technical fishing, patience, and the willingness to get excited about ...

Leave the fly rod and grab the muck boots. For an interesting take on brook trout angling, make for the hardwoods instead of the main stream. These quick tips on catching small creek, under the radar ...

Few anglers would argue with the idea that rainbow, brown, and brook trout are the best-known, most widespread, and most sought-after trout in North America. While cutthroat trout might not get all ...

It is that time of the year when we start looking at the melting snow in our yards and the countryside and wonder when the spring run-off will end so that the streams will settle down and clear up.

Driving around northeast Iowa recently it was apparent that trout fishing remains a popular fall activity when every parking spot at North and South Bear Creek and Waterloo Creek was filled. “That was ...

If you think about fly fishing or river fishing in general, chances are that a brown trout comes to mind. Catching a big brown is the pinnacle for many trout anglers, whether fishing with fly gear or ...

Tom Rosenbauer reached down to his laptop, and a picture of a tiny cascade of water splashing down stones appeared on the projector screen. “Would you stop and fish a stream that small?” he asked the ...

Trout season opens at 8 a.m. Saturday, April 6, in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and that means it’s time for anglers to take stock of their fishing tackle and bait or lure options. For some ...

Depending on what part of the country you’re in, it might already be feeling like summer. The warmer months bring increased insect activity and great trout fishing opportunities, but they also present ...

Under the heading, "More here than meets the eye," we offer the example of fishing a small stream. Small, in this case, means anything too small to float and with only the occasional hole more than ...

I was lucky to have grown up in a fishing family and have a mother who trusted us kids to walk two blocks to what seemed like ...