With that said, small stream fly fishing is still a little ways off. This spring has been the craziest I can remember. It’s one thing to have all four seasons come and go in an hour, but to have ...

Everything You Need to Know About Fly Fishing in Small Streams If there’s a better way to enjoy fly fishing at its most wondrous than on a small stream, I’ve yet to experience it.

I learned the basics of small water fly fishing from my dad, a former Orvis guide and dry fly purist, who favored the small creeks and streams of western Virginia where I grew up.

Rosenbauer offered some advice for small-stream success. The close quarters of little creeks can be challenging, but instead of false-casting to dry your dry fly, use dessicant powder and stick to ...

Livingston fly fishing guide Matt Wilhelm will talk about strategies and tactics for fishing small streams at the Magic City Fly Fishers meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 3, at the Billings Rod and Gun Club.

Small streams pack everything good about fly fishing into a small space – there’s no better place to learn about trout, moving water, and what draws you to them.

Terrestrial flies are tied to imitate land-dwelling bugs that fall into trout streams. Ants, beetles, and hoppers are the big three categories that most terrestrial patterns fall into – because those ...

Occasionally you will need to go to a dry fly as small as a size 18 or 20, but usually sizes 14 and 16 work pretty well. There will also be times when even larger flies will work fine.

Dry fly boxes are a necessity for any fisherman regularly fishing dry flies. These delicate flies need room in a box to keep their hackles from compressing to float properly.

I caught all these fish on my favorite dry fly, a Royal Wulff. As I stood in this small feeder stream, catching a large number of fish, I began to think about the feeder streams in the Durango area.

Angling writer John Gierach talks of the differences between big and small waters in the opening chapter of his book, "Fly Fishing Small Streams" (1989, Stackpole Books, Mechanicsburg, Penn., $15 ...