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I believe Miami could be the best inner-city fly-fishing community in the United States, with its unlimited waterways and canals, and amazing fish targets, such as peacock bass, largemouth bass, snook and tarpon. All are likely players on nearly all the city’s waterbodies. The problem is this: all the anglers, including young aspiring anglers who use bikes as transportation, know they aren’t really supposed to be fishing those posted waters. So, we got to thinking: What can we do about this?

You demand a lot from your waders—paramount being, they must keep you dry! Simms’ new Second Wind Stockingfoot Wader, available through a special partnership between Hose of Fly and Simms, does just that . . . at a $299.95 price point that doesn’t break the bank.

Lee Davidson lives on Idaho's Clearwater River and designs spey lines specifically for the Clearwater and other Inland Northwest rivers. The lower Clearwater is big water and there are lies for steelhead to hold in across the entire river. Covering the water and fishing the water well with every swing favors long lines and long rods. These are his top choices in gear when he wades in and throws.

Back near the Dawn of Time—the 1950s—a chap named Esmond Drury designed a shrimpy-looking Atlantic salmon fly in response to a ban on prawns as bait in salmon rivers. He called his fly The General Practitioner and the name stuck. Over the next few decades, as flyfishing for steelhead took hold in North America, fly-fishers looked to the Atlantic salmon traditions for guidance and inspiration, and the General Practitioner—now known more simply as the GP—found its way into the fly boxes of Pacific Northwest steelhead anglers.

House of Fly's Missouri River Trout Spey Camp offers an opportunity to learn all things trout spey from one of the Missouri River's absolute trout spey gurus, Mr. Fred Telleen. And, you just might put the biggest brown trout of your life in the bottom of the net.

Calvin Fuller's steelhead education started on the banks of Washington State's Skagit River and was assisted by some of the most legendary names in steelheading, including Harry Lemiere, Dec Hogan, and Ed Ward, among others. Here's Calvin's story.

House of Fly's Saga Spey Rod may be the best tool for landing Idaho's Clearwater River steelhead.

Breaking norms, like fishing fast instead of slow, can lead you to more steelhead on the Pacific Northwest's wildest rivers.