guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

The local rivers are holding some incredible fly fishing between their banks. Anglers looking to maximize their time on the water are resorting to fishing with dry dropper rigs and for good reasons.

Successful nymphing starts with your setup. A two-fly nymph rig is often the way to go – it allows you to cover a wider range of the water column, and it adds variety to your patterns. I’ll typically ...

Using a nymph as a dropper with a dry fly makes all the sense in the world, and I’ve seen it recommended many times — and yet I’ve only tried it occasionally and half-heartedly. But after catching a ...

For those of you who are new to the game or have been holed up in some dark, far-off place, I would like to introduce and recommend a very effective way to fish our rivers and streams here in the ...