Here are the best ways to find the trout fishing ... map on steroids. You get access to all of the details you would through the state’s map, in addition to features like real-time stream ...

For fishing brooks, I often use a 6-foot fly rod that casts well in tight quarters, but some brooks and streams on Map 56 and 57 flow so widely that folks can get by with a 9-foot fly rod.

Clasgens says she took her love of fishing through life and eventually to school at West Virginia University where she was introduced to flyfishing. “Someone put a fly rod in her hand, ...

where they discussed fly fishing for bowfin and gar in Virginia. “Nothing’s more cool than chasing what we’re going to talk about today which is dinosaurs, plain and simple,” Lemcke said.

As a head guide, Rennie had a lot of valuable information to share about fly fishing in Virginia’s premier rivers, especially in regard to smallmouth. “This is smallmouth season here in ...

Fly fishing small streams forces you to develop controlled, precise casting. If you’re fishing a larger river, a misplaced cast may be the difference between a good drift and a bad drift – on ...

If there’s a better way to enjoy fly fishing at its most wondrous than on a small stream, I’ve yet to experience it. There’s something about a thin blue line hidden deep in the woods that ...

Standing knee-deep in a pristine stream ... conducts free fly fishing retreats for men living with cancer. Men participating in a Reel Recovery fly fishing retreat, in Syria, Virginia.

But nothing causes local anglers to wax poetic quite like a high mountain stream with a fly-fishing pole flexing under the tug of a brookie, North Carolina’s only native trout. Need a break?

The most joy I receive from fly fishing comes via small streams. I have had the good fortune to fly fish in lots of places for a big water and fish experience, and I have enjoyed every one.