Rainbows like to rise to dry flies. They typically hang out higher in the water column than brown trout, and they do a good deal more of their feeding on the water’s surface. During a strong insect ...

Your fantasy of plucking trout on nymphs behind your favorite rock evaporates when you realize wading over to it would be far too dangerous, if not impossible. High water events are, however, a ...

They’re not hard to identify: if a fish has the distinctive pink stripe of a rainbow trout and any slash under its gills, that’s a cutbow. The slash can have some pretty serious color variation – ...