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House of Fly's Fred Telleen heads to Montana's Missouri River to test his favorite "grab zones." Unfortunately, the fish aren't there, forcing Telleen to change his tactics and his locations until he finally solves the puzzle. His methodology could help you on the water when your typical tactics fail.

In this Episode of Project in the Wild, the Fly Project crew heads to the Missouri River to fish and celebrate a new year. Sam, Fred, Jay, Taylor and the rest of the gang do well swinging with double-hand rods.

Author Greg Thomas visits Montana's Bighorn River and finds a wad of brown and rainbow trout on a three-day streamer eat. He also finds a bunch of dead waterfowl, spurring thoughts of covid and avian flu.

Author Greg Thomas joins steelhead guru Jeff Hickman on the Oregon Coast where they fish through a deluge and end up beacing three wild steelhead and debate the merits of hatchery versus native fish.

Whether searching for a gift, or just adding to your angling library Hogan’s A Passion For Steelhead is sort of a must-have, especially if you live and fish in the Pacific Northwest. Hogan lived the life, fished the rivers, caught the fish, and has a unique ability to teach, whether you’re standing next to him in the water, or simply taking an afternoon or evening to read his words. No matter how experienced you are with steelhead, this book will enhance your skills and give you an opportunity to keep dreaming.

It's difficult to buy meaningful gifts for a fly-fishing enthusiast. That's why our fly shop managers have built out a list of gifts that will make any fly fisher happy, no matter what their experience level.

These are our top choices for online fly shops and buying quality flies.

Loc Waders' Lars Litzell ties the Creme Brulee, which is an effective fly for Atlantic salmon. Fish this fly on a variety of salmon rivers, including Norway's Orkla River, and you'll get takes.

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.