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Nymphing with heavy flies or splitshot to get a trout's attention, ESN, indicator nymphing, fly fishing

nymphing Featured

Nymphing vs Turbulence

The nymphing angler is locked in a perennial quest to fish deeper because rivers fight back...

Favorite Flies for fishing runoff: Pigsticker, Woolly Bugger, Cranefly, Tequeely, Polar Shrimp, Pat's Rubber Legs

Down But Not Out: Runoff

6 favorite flies for fishing runoff, when the rivers are running high, and dirty.

A tarpon toad fly pattern illustrated in the style of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon album cover

More Clues on Fish Vision (Tarpon Edition)

We're diving into the wide world of tarpon vision, a place more vivid than humans might imagine...

Stream Temperature Guide for optimal trout temperatures, and predicting macroinvertebrate hatch timing

An Angler's Guide to Stream Temperatures

Did you know that your thermometer can be useful to uncover all kinds of fly fishing clues? Bug hatches, fish preferences, fish behavior...

Fly fishing for rooster fish in Baja, Mexico

Story From The Road: Gallo Suerte

A Story from the road that wasn’t pretty and didn’t go the way I envisioned, but still embarrassingly led to a new lifetime fish

Flies displayed include: chubby chernobyl, clouser minnow, barr's meat whistle, popper, crazy charlie, and turneffe crab

behind the scenes

Behind the Scenes

Unveiling the creative process from idea to ink for Due West Angler's distinctive articles on fly fishing + science + conservation

Streamer fly fishing on the Animas River, Durango, Colorado

How to Match the Hatch with Streamers

Fly fishing: We all know about the bugs... but what about the baitfish?

fly fisherman casting flies to trout

Visualize Better Fly Casting

tips to visualize better casting efficiency (fly fishing)

Dr. Slick Cyclone nippers are great for fly fishing, trout, carp, bonefish, tarpon

Instant Favorite: Reviewing Dr. Slick's Cyclone Nippers

A new design in nippers that's more akin to micro-pliers than the usual pinch nippers offer incredible functionality for fly anglers

Foggy view of the South Boulder Creek tailwater, taken while hiking and fly fishing

Tailstone Rivers: What Are They and How Do They Work?

how do tailwaters transform back into freestone rivers? (fly fishing)

Conservation Concept: Ecosystem Services and Externalities

conservation concept

Conservation Concept: Ecosystem Services and Externalities

Exploring the concept of ecosystem services and environmental externalities

fly fishing for carp

Wait... Carp Don't Have What Organ?!

These picky fish lack an internal organ commonly found in almost 3/4 of all fish, how is that possible?

Umpqua, Cliff, Fishpond, Tacky, Plano, Fin River, Plan D, WYND, Orvis, Fulling Mill, Yakoda, what’s the best fly box?

Fly Box Shootout

Umpqua, Cliff, Fishpond, Tacky, Plano, Fin River, Yakoda, what's the best fly box?

Walking on a trail to the banks of a river to fly fish trout, grayling, whitefish and chase hatches like salmonflies

calendar Featured

Never Miss Out on Epic Fishing Again

Previewing our new fly calendar to track hatches and yearly fly fishing events

don't get skunked while fly fishing

The Skunk Set Me Free

Getting skunked, catching nothing, was never an acceptable outcome.... until I realized different

Releasing a pre-spawn Wyoming Brown Trout

5 Tips for Landing Those Big Fish

To be a true angler you need to experience the heartbreak of losing a big fish. Here's how to stack the odds in your favor so that doesn't happen...

Useful Biology: What A Fish Tail Teaches Anglers

anatomy Featured

Useful Biology: What A Fish Tail Teaches Anglers

We can learn clues about fish by simply understanding how tail shapes differ (Fly Fishing)

Releasing a stillwater trout from Delaney Buttes Lakes, Colorado

4 Simple Items for Warmer Hands

Cold water is great for trout, not so much for your hands

End of the Year Round-Up: Our Best Articles from 2023

essential reads

End of the Year Round-Up: Our Best Articles from 2023

Highlighting the essential reads from the past year's lineup of fly-fishing articles

pink pookie fly pattern, pink grasshopper fly pattern, pink hopper fly

grasshoppers Featured

Pink Grasshoppers Really Do Exist

In our never-ending quest to explain why unexpected colors work as fly patterns I found some insights in an unlikely place... the museum...

Temple Fork Outfitters, Axiom II-X fly rod, an affordable TFO masterpiece

Instant Favorite: TFO Axiom II-X Fly Rod Review

This fly rod has become an instant favorite, reviewing the tfo axiom 2-x fly rod

Walking the banks, fly fishing for urban carp, Denver South Platte River

Carper's Almanac: We Observed Carp Behavior for Two Years

We chased urban carp around for two year at a set of fixed locations, checking in regularly, and logged details to each encounter, what did we learn?

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: Releasing a cutbow from the South Platte River

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 11) Measuring Success

I think it's fair to assume every angler hopes to catch lots of fish, and even better, big fish.... but...

mysis tailwater fly fishing, mysis fly pattern

History of the Mysis Fishery: Gaffe to Gold Medal

Gather around the fire and let me tell you a fly fishing tale of how mysis ended up feeding fish well downstream from the intended destination.

dealing with pressured rivers and overcrowding: private waters

overcrowding series

Overcrowding 10) What About Private Waters?

With all the talk of finding new waters, the liminal spaces and overlooked fisheries, it begs the question; what about paying for access to private waters?