Dragonflies are hard to miss. Big, fast, and buzzing over trout streams like little helicopters, they’re the opposite of subtle. If a trout can pick out a size 22 mayfly, it certainly isn’t blind to a ...

To fly fish for trout effectively, it’s important to be familiar with the food sources that your flies are designed to imitate. Many of the best trout anglers double as amateur entomologists, studying ...

As the calendar turns to October, fall colors are starting to make their annual appearance. And while I enjoy the vibrant reds, oranges and yellows as much as the next guy, there’s one fall color that ...

Elijah Lucero, 6, of Moriarty caught a 12-inch perch at Eagle Nest Lake using a worm on Aug. 31. Kynlei Cordova and Abigail Fernandez, both 5 and of Questa, caught trout at Eagle Rock Lake using ...

More than 50 percent of the average trout’s diet consists of tiny midges, and it’s these microscopic insects that you’ll most likely find flying above local streams this month. But don’t knock ...

During the winter, food sources in the river run lean. Midges are the predominant insect that keep trout moving in the cold months. While present in the watershed all year round, winter is where ...

Linda Williams of Las Cruces caught a 23-inch rainbow trout at Eagle Nest Lake using a nightcrawler worm on Aug. 22. Seth Hardy of Red River caught and released a 23-inch brown trout on the Rio Grande ...

Unlike bass, which are largely reactive eaters, trout are very specific about what they eat and when they'll eat it. That's why an indolent trout will ignore every nymph in your fly box no matter how ...

The window is closing rapidly as the winter months approach. A rooftop of hardwater will blanket the lakes, ponds and reservoirs soon enough. Fans of stillwaters need to venture out before the ice ...

The Lahontan National Fish Hatchery Complex in Gardnerville began stocking 100,000 catchable, Lahontan cutthroat trout into Lake Tahoe on June 1 and will continue stocking throughout the summer as ...

As May nears, the Truckee River is flowing high on all sections and the federal water master is releasing more water from Lake Tahoe. Pyramid Lake is fishing well again, too, after a few slow days ...

I think about my grandfathers quite a bit these days. It’s because I am the same age they were in my earliest memories. Both of them lived in what used to be called Oregon Territory. Both of them ...