Mot River Valley Scenery By Gregg Rockett There is a good reason to have New Zealand on your angling bucket list – all the stories you have heard are true. It is a trout fishing paradise and portrayed as such by Zane Grey in Tales of the Angler’s Eldorado, published in 1926. There are also …...

By Tom Keer A half-dozen boulders as large as a Volkswagen Beetle sat at the head of the pool, and trout held exactly where you’d expect them to be. Some were in the hollowed-out river bottom in front of each rock, others finned in the slow water inside the vee current while smaller fish drifted …...

By Nathan D’Achille A closer look at Midwest smaller trout streams For years I drove over bridges looking for new trout streams, always passing up the bridges that were brush-choked. But this particular stream held promise as I parked. Standing over the bridge revealed it wasn’t a bridge at all but a small culvert, and …...

By Shane Behler The river where I fished when I should have been doing my homework moodily rolls by. Every rifle, every pocket, is a tether to the past. Here is where I hung roll casts in overhangs and miss-timed hooksets on spinner-sipping browns. That’s the slick where I went in over my waders netting …...