All three dry flies are excellent. An extended-body dry fly gives the same impression as the long green drakes. The green drakes are massive bugs as far as mayflies go around here. The exaggerated ...

Knowing the stages of development in a bug’s life is a critical component to successful fly fishing. Deciphering the hatch on ...

Matching the hatch can be done with nearly any white dry fly pattern, including Cahill and Sulphur patterns. Most often all that is needed is a pocketful of white spent spinners in a size 12 or 14.

Blue-wing olive mayflies seemingly appear huge after fishing midges all winter, not only to us, but to the fish too. BWOs, as they’re known, prefer to hatch on warmer, overcast days, and are most ...

This is the time when summer is almost over, but the days are still hot, dry and windy. Surface water temperatures are very ...

Dry fly anglers have plenty to be excited about too. Fall brings well-known mayfly hatches, like the mahogany and the baetis, which are sometimes known as blue-winged olives.

Fishing Researchers aren’t the only ones who track mayflies. Fly anglers closely follow the timing of mayfly hatches as a potential opportunity to catch fish, sometimes on a dry fly.

For three nights beginning July 5, Dieterman waded the Mississippi near Frontenac State Park, casting a dry-fly Hex pattern to numerous fish species that were gorging themselves on the real thing.

We are all glad those dog days of late June and early July are in the rearview, it is time for some of the best dry fly fishing of the year! This report is provided each week by Taylor Creek Fly Shops ...

An Adam's dry fly pattern. Tying the fly parachute style with a little olive added to the gray body is a very effective pattern. Blue-winged olive mayfly patterns are tied on size 16-20 hooks.

Fishing Researchers aren’t the only ones who track mayflies. Fly anglers closely follow the timing of mayfly hatches as a potential opportunity to catch fish, sometimes on a dry fly.