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.
Try these exciting methods of catching trout on stillwaters as the sun sinks
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Discover how to catch the fish of a lifetime with sage advice from May 1965
Have you got one? This article from our archive reflects on a common error in the approach to a fishery
A renowned Tweed boatman explains the dos and don'ts of going afloat on a big river
From our archive: The wisdom of Robin Elles
Every spring, trout fishers keep a sharp eye out for Bibio marci – and so do the trout
Discover the effect of drifting, the angle and distance of casts, sink rates, leader lengths and more.
Find out how flies move, ways to control your fly line and understand the effect of wind on water
Find out how to fish the best lures for salmon in the River Tay and other big rivers, including the Vision 110, Toby Salmo and Devon Minnow