Check any fly fisherman’s fly box and it’s likely you will find a bit of Troth’s legacy. In 1957, Troth designed one of the most definitive dry-fly patterns of all time – the elk hair caddis.

How to Fish This Soft Hackle Fly: Swing it through deep runs and bounce over shallow riffles, or tie it behind a dry fly, letting the tandem rig tighten and swing as it completes a drift.

A simple, small pattern, the RS2 is tailor-made for finicky fish. When you can see trout feeding just below the surface but can’t seem to match what they’re eating, this fly often does the trick.

When a fish rises to a dry fly, you'll see exactly where in the run it decided to eat. With time, you’ll start to identify feeding patterns that you can apply to any trout river you’ll fish.

Size, color and body style all combine to entice a feeding trout. I regularly take trout on the surface with 12 particular dry fly patterns. Over the years my dependable dozen have worked in Maine, ...

Then just as most waterways began to return to something approaching normal, another bout of rain had them running bank full again. That pattern seemed to persist well into May, dooming the window ...

Weaver said if a fly nears a trout but the fish shows no reaction, “it tells me I have completely misguessed the major food source.” If the fish gives the next fly a glance but does not eat the fly, ...