Fly fishing tips and advice: trout, sea trout and salmon techniques
Whether you’re learning to read a river for the first time or refining a Spey cast you’ve been throwing for decades, this is where Trout & Salmon’s expertise is distilled into practical, actionable advice.
Our tips and advice pages cover the full range of game fishing skills – dry fly and nymph technique for wild brown trout, chalkstream watercraft, stillwater tactics, sea trout after dark, and the salmon fly fishing methods that separate a productive day from a blank. We cover single and double-handed rod technique, fly selection, river reading, wading, catch and release best practice and seasonal tactics across rivers and stillwaters throughout the UK.
Advice written by anglers who have spent serious time on the water – not summarised from somewhere else.
Follow this expert eight-point plan for early season success
From our archive: an impassioned editorial from 1960 that might have been written about the threats anglers face today
From our archive: how to use one’s car to meet all angling eventualities
A renowned storyteller who inspired a generation of ‘trout bums’
Should you twitch, pull or hang your teams of trout flies? Find out in our handy guide
Stan Headley offers a no-nonsense guide to knots, length and spacing
Three casts that counter the river's current and avoid drag
From our archive: no matter the outcome of a day on the water, fate will always have played a part
Your questions answered about the most reliable hatch of high summer
Keep missing rising fish on stillwaters? Try these proven solutions