In the beginning of your fly fishing journey, the most common concept of fly fishing is floating a "bug"-like fly on the top of the water to induce a fish to strike. The fly is supposed to represent a ...

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We studied antipredatory responses of lotic mayfly (Baetis) nymphs in a factorial experiment with four levels of fish presence: (1) a freely foraging fish (the European minnow, Phoxinus phoxinus), (2) ...

Last week, I offered some suggestions on assembling a basic assortment of nymph patterns for early-season trout in our region. This week, I’ll present a similar discussion targeting dry-fly patterns.