Trout Articles

Fly Fishing for Trout - We have articles to help anglers fishing anything from small mountain brooks to large river.  Dry fly fishing or swinging streamers, terrestrials or tiny dry flies, check out the articles below.

  • Early Season Nymphing in Small Streams

    Tactics for Early Season Nymphing in Small Mountain Streams.

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  • Mountain Trout Fishing

    Small high gradient streams define Mountain Trout Fishing. Learn how this type of fishing differs from the larger streams.

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  • The Trico Mayfly

    Harry discusses how to fish the Trico Mayfly, one of his favorite hatches.

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  • Virginia's Ten Best Flies for Bass and Trout

    What are our favorite patterns throughout Virginia? Check out this article.

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  • Early March Mountain Trout Fishing

    March in the mid-Atlantic can be fickle. Snow or 70 degrees. What does this mean for the Brook Trout?

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  • Winter Trout Fishing

    Winter fishing typically means cold temperatures and sluggish fish. How do you approach these fish?

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  • October Trout Fishing on Big Stony Creek

    Big Stony Creek in Edinburg, VA provides some great fall fishing when the weather and stream levels cooperate.

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  • Reading the Feeding Stations on Mountain Trout Streams

    Put the pools under a microscope. I bet you're missing, or spooking, a lot of fish.

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  • Fly Fishing Virginia's Passage Creek

    Passage Creek, a special regulation stream in Shenandoah County, VA. Managed as a delayed harvest stocked trout stream, offers great fishing from October until June.

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  • The Mr. Rapidan Fly Family

    As the inventor of the Mr. Rapidan, Harry Murray discusses this pattern and the entirety of this series of flies.

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  • Fly Fishing Virginia's Stony Creeks

    We discuss three Stony Creeks in the Old Dominion.

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  • Trout Fishing Terrestrials on Spring Creeks

    Picky spring creek trout feeding on the surface define the pinnacle of fly fishing for many anglers.

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