Chuck Atkins stood waist-deep in chilly water with a fly rod in hand as a predicament spread out before him–dozens of carp feeding vigorously near the Chicago shore of Lake Michigan. For a purist fly ...

A couple years ago, I went fishing on the West Branch of the Delaware River at one of its less charming, but still very fishy, access points, the village of Deposit waste water treatment plant.

Don't turn up your nose at carp, Chris Hunt tells fly fishers. “They’re perhaps the most challenging freshwater fish on the fly, and only in recent years have American fly fishers begun to embrace ...

Jonny Armstrong / U.S. Geological Survey In the early season, when the rivers are still running high and cool from snowmelt, KynsLee Scott loves trout fishing. As a fishing guide and conservationist, ...

Trout have eyes on the sides of their head for a reason. / Photo by Mark Pickrel Trout face upstream, so they can only see you if you’re upstream of them – right? Logical assumption, but not right.