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Articles about trout and fishing

Baby Boomers can enjoy leisure time Now you finally have the time!

Ask about Fly Fishing is an internet radio site hosted by D. Rodger Maves where you can ask questions and chat with the experts live.

Trout fishing resources and links

We will make every effort to search the web, periodicals, youtube and other sources bringing the most useful information to you, so you can spend more time with the trout net and less time on the internet.

Regional Trout Fishing: Information specific to states or regions. It will include fishing regulations, locations, streams, stocking schedules etc.

Top 5 Places To Fish Before You Die

1. Yellowstone National Park - 2400 miles of some of the best trout streams.

2. The Missouri Headwaters, Montana – Very heavy concentration of trout per mile, you can’t go wrong. Upper Missouri Headwaters

Top 5 Trout Fishing Outfitters

Gander Mountain This is a store that is quite new in our area but gaining rapidly.

Bass Pro Shops has a trout fishing department with flies and fly tying material as well as a great line of fishing equipment including rods, reels, poles and lures. Dick's has 2 stores in the Carolinas, 4 stores in Georga, 2 in Virginia and 3 stores in Tennessee.

Trout Fishing 5 Top Knots

Clinch Knot

Improved Clinck Knot

Blood Knot

Nail Knot

Arbor Knot

Refer to the TroutU Class 104 Basic Knots for a video tutorial on tying each type of knot.

Top 5 Trout Fishing Live Baits

These are the 5 top live baits in order of effectiveness.

1. Helgrammites which is the larvae of Dobson flies.

2. Canned Corn (The same kind you eat)

3. Salmon Eggs (We prefer pink)

4. Worms

5. Crayfish

For a complete understanding and discussion of live baits, please refer to

TroutU class 103 Baits and Lures.

Top 5 Trout Artificial Lures

1, Rooster Tails

Top 5 Trout Fishing Streamers

Here are the top 5 (+ bonus #6) streamers for trout.

1. Sculpin

2. Wooly bugger

3. Muddler Minnow

Top 5 Trout Fishing Dry Flies

The all time top (generic) dry flies are these, used by fishermen all over the world. There are many variations of these flies used as well. While these flies are generally good, for more realistic and specific flies (meaning better success), we recommend Perfect Fly brand flies. After all, flies are made to imitate insects, and there are no generic insects.

#1 Parachute Adams Pattern