If you’re looking for giant fish or huge numbers of fish, small stream trout fishing probably isn’t for you. Small streams require technical fishing, patience, and the willingness to get excited about ...

Livingston fly fishing guide Matt Wilhelm will talk about strategies and tactics for fishing small streams at the Magic City Fly Fishers meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 3, at the Billings Rod and Gun Club.

Tom Rosenbauer reached down to his laptop, and a picture of a tiny cascade of water splashing down stones appeared on the projector screen. “Would you stop and fish a stream that small?” he asked the ...

I learned the basics of small water fly fishing from my dad, a former Orvis guide and dry fly purist, who favored the small creeks and streams of western Virginia where I grew up. I used to question ...

There are two situations for which a 7.5-foot leader is a great choice: fishing small streams and streamer fishing. On small streams, a shorter leader lets you turn your fly over faster and cast more ...

My definition of a feeder stream is a small stream that feeds or flows into or out of a large river or lake. I thought about this as I was fly fishing in a small stream that flows into the Gallatin ...

It's been said that small-stream fishing has a life and attitude of its own, an attitude that anglers either compliantly adopt or go home frustrated, vowing never to return. There is a unique ...

The first time I fished the lower Madison River, I felt small. I was 18 years old and had never been out West—and though I’d grown up trout fishing on the East Coast, I had never done so on a river ...

In the early hours of the geologic time clock, spanning millions of years, the earth was covered with a gaseous atmosphere and warm shallow seas constantly lashed by storms from above and battered by ...

If you think about fly fishing or river fishing in general, chances are that a brown trout comes to mind. Catching a big brown is the pinnacle for many trout anglers, whether fishing with fly gear or ...