Freestone rivers like the Eagle River mirror the frigid conditions filling the valley. Wherever the cold shuts sections down, angling slows to a sluggish pace. Slush forms and fills the river.

A freestone stream presents challenging issues during the winter. It takes patience, finesse and a high degree of resilience to achieve success on the Eagle River during the cold weather months. The ...

Even in winter, the Yakima River Canyon holds a special draw for fly fishers from Washington and beyond. Last December FishingBooker.com named the state’s only section of Blue Ribbon trout stream one ...

Discover how late fall and winter offer prime fishing opportunities in Idaho’s rivers. Learn tips to catch trout and whitefish, stay warm, and enjoy the solitude.

Winter brings our lowest and clearest water, which inevitably causes trout to become spookier and more selective. Stealth and ...

It’s never too early to prepare your winter fly box. Here are some of our don’t-leave-home-without fly patterns for the ...

The winter-taupe grass along the river’s edge bends stubbornly in the steady wind pushing up from Utah along the Wasatch. Lingering, gale-flattened snow—the stuff that hasn’t blown off into the nearby ...

Steamboat Springs sits right in the middle of the Yampa Valley, built on the banks of the Yampa River. The Yampa is one of ...

Winter trout fishing is a funny thing. Some people love it because the crowds are gone, and they can bank on having long stretches of great water all to themselves. Other people hang up the trout gear ...

Snow may cover the ground and ice may cover the ponds and lakes, but the West’s bigger rivers are still open for fishing, including fly fishing. “Fish still got to eat,” said Danny Lane, a fishing ...

Spring and Fall are the two best seasons to fly fish the Rockies / photo by Jasper Taback When the birds begin to sing, the last of the ski bums ship out, and winter-weary trout anglers return to the ...