Photo: Bart Lombardo

If you’re in part of the country where it’s too hot for trout fishing – or you can’t access the high country – then it might be time to look at chasing panfish. Bart Lombardo has a great piece on tactics for chasing these fish during the summer over in Fly Fisherman Magazine, which you can read here.

Photo by Dan Flynn

If the idea of swinging flies for steelhead intrigues you, but you don’t live near any steelhead fisheries, don’t worry. Many of the same patterns and techniques used to chase steelhead work great for chasing trout, too. Louis Cahill breaks down how to get started with swinging steelhead flies for trout in this piece over at Gink & Gasoline. 

For anglers looking to make the move from fishing freshwater to saltwater, one of the biggest shifts is in setting the hook. Setting the hook in the traditional trout fishing sense will almost always pull a streamer straight from the mouth of fish in saltwater. The strip set is a technique any aspiring saltwater angler needs to master.

This story from Evan Jones dives into some of the intricacies involved in timing a strip set. You can read it here.