Fly fishing for trout on a stream or river could be addictive. The ability of an angler to try and present an imitation fly that looks very much like a natural in the current and allow it to move in ...

Steve Moss offered these tips, geared especially to winter fly fishing, based on his 15 years of fly fishing experience on the Spokane River. •When swinging a fly pattern in the current, whether it’s ...

The winter issue of Trout Unlimited’s “Trout” magazine inspired me to want to return this spring to my fly fishing roots — swinging a type of wet flies known as “soft hackles.” Soft hackles are simple ...

Jack Gartside’s Soft Hackle Streamer was conceived as a small baitfish imitation and is a good choice when swinging for anything from bull trout to sea-run cutts to steelhead. Tied small, it can also ...

One of Montana's legendary trout flies, the girdle bug, was designed to imitate a large stonefly nymph, or "hellgrammite," as the local anglers on the Big Hole River call the big aquatic insects. Lost ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Madison River in Yellowstone National Park - There are good numbers of browns and rainbows that ...

Have you ever wished there was an easy way to get into fly tying and fly fishing for trout? There is: fishing soft hackle flies. Soft hackle flies are simple wet flies, consisting at their most basic ...

For those of you that read my columns but haven’t fished with me, and for those that don’t read my columns but have fished with me, you know I don’t like fly fishing with nymphs. In fact, I refuse to ...

Billings fly tyer Robert Cox will be demonstrating how to tie his articulated soft-hackle streamer on Saturday, Jan. 14, from 1 to 3 p.m. at East Rosebud Fly & Tackle Shop. This event is free to to ...