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Trout Fishing

5 Tips for Finding New Species and Catching More Fish

Every year, All Anglers Fly Shop hosts its 25 On The Fly tournament in our home state of Colorado. It's one of the few...

Fly Fishing Nymphs – The Most Productive Way to Land Fish

It’s been said that trout do up to 90% of their feeding underwater. Whether or not this number is accurate, the point remains the...

The Drift: A Lesson I Needed Years Ago

Fly fishing is, for all its eccentricities and accoutrements, a relatively simple sport. Your goal is to put a fly in front of a...

The Drift: The Most Versatile Fly Rod

I heard—from a reliable source—that something like 70% of fly rods sold in the U.S. are 9' 5-weights. That makes sense, since the 5-weight...

The Difference Between Rainbow, Cutthroat, and Cut-Bow Trout

When asked to define the difference between a rainbow trout and a cutthroat trout, a biologist would tell you that although both species have...

How to Correctly Size Your Flies

A few weeks ago, I was out fishing with two friends when we got into a great blue-winged olive hatch. There were bugs everywhere,...

5 tips: How to Catch Trophy Trout

Trophy trout hunting has undoubtedly gained notoriety in fly fishing due to social media. Everybody wants to have a rad picture shared across the...

Restoring Westslope Cutthroat in Yellowstone

Many anglers are familiar with Yellowstone's native trout—the Yellowstone cutthroat. But fewer anglers are aware that Westslope cutthroat are native to the park, in...

The Drift: Spring Fly Fishing Sucks

My dad always talked about the pre-runoff fishing being "incredible," particularly out on the creek that flowed through the ghost town about 45 minutes...