With time, you’ll start to identify feeding patterns that you can apply to any trout river you’ll fish. A fall brook trout caught on a dry fly. / Photo provided by Jasper Taback.

Tie on a floating adult pattern and use standard upstream dry-fly techniques. Patterns that work as searching dries include Elk Hair Caddis, Stimulator, Goddard Caddis and X-Caddis.

Wulffs, Humpys and Stimulators tied in various color combinations in sizes 12 to 16 are some of the best patterns for bringing up trout when nothing is hatching.

7 Essential Nymph Patterns for Every Trout Angler. No bugs ... I don’t have a hard and fast rule about the number of cubic feet per second at which I can’t rationalize fishing a dry fly, ...

A few weeks ago, I resurrected a fly pattern that you’ll probably recognize if you are among that group of now middle-aged fly fishers who took up the sport in the 1970s. We called it the &#8… ...

Also, if trout are rising, I always ask the guy on the oars to pull up on a gravel bar or the bank so I can match a dry fly pattern to what’s hatching. Like many fly fishers I started off ...

Greenberg explained, “This is a favorite dry fly pattern for large trout. It’s June, it’s 7 p.m., this is what I’m fishing with! ...

Casting a skwala dry-fly pattern to a trout is like chucking a T-bone steak to a hungry cave man. Don’t expect much sipping. The strike is likely to be savage.

These bugs mark the beginning of "dry fly season" across the West, and offer a relief to anglers everywhere who've spent most of winter nymphing for lethargic trout or throwing tiny size 26 midges ...

Fly Fishing Tips – What to Do About Dry Fly Refusals. ... Maybe it wasn’t quite the right pattern, the tippet was a little too thick, or your fly dragged at the last moment ...