DULUTH — "I’m a professional stay-at-home dad with a YouTube channel," Gunnar Brammer said when asked to describe his job. "I guess I’m a professional fly tier, too, since I teach fly-tying classes ...

The 2026 Columbia River fish passage plan has shifted the game: dams are spilling less water while maintaining strict fish passage targets, forcing fish into tighter, more pressured zones where ...

Mike Schmidt is unabashed about his favorite form of fly fishing. He enjoys streamer fishing with big flies that resemble small fish that really big fish like to eat; five-inch flies that swim ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Springtime is trout time. But when is it time to go trout fishing in the ...

A colorful Little Brook Trout streamer works well to catch much larger versions of its namesake after ice-out on local waterways. Credit: Courtesy of Bill Graves I used my paddle to push the ...

A landlocked salmon caught on a Golden Retriever on the Rapid River during Maine’s spring fishing season. Credit: Marc McDonald The BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, waters and wild ...

With the start of New Hampshire’s salmon fishing season a couple weeks away, I knew it was just a matter of time before Mike or Bob dropped by to ask me to tie up a few streamer flies for them. That ...

Being a little unconventional can be the key to consistently catching trout all season long. Many years ago, I came upon a different approach to trout fishing while fishing the west branch of New York ...

The first time I ever fished a Drunk & Disorderly, I hated the fly. A friend had given the streamer to me in 2015, swearing it was a next-level ringer. All I knew about it was that the unique head, ...