We fly-fishers really look forward to the fall, with its cool weather and big trout. But when it arrives, it races by at breakneck speed, or at least that’s how it seems to me. Once the streams begin ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. – Every fall, about the time most outdoors enthusiasts across the Northland put away their rods and reels and set their sights on hunting, Steve Young gets serious about fly fishing.

It’s fall, my favorite time of the year. Why you might ask? If you live in an area that is dependent on tourism, school has started, and they’ve gone home. The air temperature has cooled off. In fact, ...

If you’ve been casting flies on local streams lately, surely you’ve seen a few looks (followed by refusals) from those wary trout. When we see the fish refusing naturals in addition to our offerings, ...

From a distance, I watched as a bright yellow maple leaf gently disengaged itself from the branch it had been attached to since April because of the aging process and a swift northerly breeze. The ...

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I HAD HOPED to go to British Columbia this fall, to throw a fly for steelhead in the Morice River where it winds out of the Telkwa Range near Smithers. I settled for a blue-ribbon trout river in ...

Brown trout are famous for their aggression towards streamers, and much of that comes in the fall. They’re spawning right now – which means they’re territorial, fired up, and ready to chase anything ...

Our local rivers sustain the need for the basics of water and for connecting with the great outdoors. Trout Unlimited is about fishing. It is also about conservation and community. Trout Unlimited ...

The Red Quill fly is eloquently finished with split wood duck flank wings and a medium dun rooster feather tail and hackle.