Scott Canterbury says the early post-spawn is one of his favorite times of the year to fish because several things are happening. A few fish are still spawning, and many are willing to eat a topwater.

They’re not hard to identify: if a fish has the distinctive pink stripe of a rainbow trout and any slash under its gills, that’s a cutbow. The slash can have some pretty serious color variation – ...

Anglers tend to put a lot of stock in selecting the right dry fly to match a hatch. But, the truth is, the perfect fly won’t do you a whole lot of good if you ...