The author with a wild Western Pennsylvania brown taken right after a major bump in river height. Just a few weeks ago, I made a six-hour drive to Western Pennsylvania to target brown trout on a very ...

This story, “The Fly Is Up,” appeared in the June 1973 issue of Outdoor Life. The Irish aren’t like other Northern Europeans. Their way of doing things is easy and indirect, and it takes a while to ...

Editor’s Note: The trout season has just begun here in New York as I write this. A friend of mine called a little while ago to tell me he was going to take his teenage boys out for the opener and ask ...

With the weather getting warmer and the sun shining longer, the conditions are right for sitting back and casting a line in your local river, stream, pond or lake. For those hoping to hook a trout, ...

Beads are a popular bait for trout. We're on the Niagara River and it's cold. Water temp is 46F. We're going to drift the shoreline for steelhead. The rig of choice? The Thundermist T-Turn, with a ...

Trout have eyes on the sides of their head for a reason. / Photo by Mark Pickrel Trout face upstream, so they can only see you if you’re upstream of them – right? Logical assumption, but not right.