The author holds a landlocked salmon caught on a nymph rig on the Rapid River. Credit: Courtesy of Marc McDonald If you’re fishing Maine rivers right now, nymph rigs are the most effective way to ...

Spring keeps the weatherman busy. Anything and everything can appear in the forecast. But anglers looking ahead can see past the weather as they anticipate the big event soon to come. A stonefly ...

Fly fishers have a lot of learning to do when it comes to all of the insects that tempt a trout. Of the four main insect groups — midges, caddis flies, mayflies and stoneflies — it is the stoneflies ...

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The salmonfly hatch has come and gone and the varieties of imitations of this fly are vast and growing. But the nymphs for next year's hatch are already in the rivers. One of the earliest and most ...