Learn expert fall fly fishing techniques for Adirondack trout including grasshopper patterns, terrestrial insects, ...

But no matter which terrestrial pattern you’re casting, if you go through a fishy run and you feel like you should have had a take, add a twitch to your fly,” he says.

Terrestrial flies are tied to imitate land-dwelling bugs that fall into trout streams. Ants, beetles, and hoppers are the big ...

From foam patterns on the surface to traditional string and feather patterns in the surface film, and sunken ants made from epoxy or hot glue, trout love ants. Large trout, small trout, all trout will ...

Those two terrestrial fly patterns will work just about anywhere from high-mountain lakes to classic Western rivers. “Grasshoppers are purely terrestrial, and they get fished a lot.

When late summer sets in and the fly fishing gets tough, use these tried-and-true patterns to put more fish in your net.

Most Colorado fly fishers would have finished out the afternoon nymphing, but Glenn went straight to his favorite terrestrial pattern, Mike Lawson’s Honey Ant, and started working the banks.

There are those anglers who tell you that fly-fishing with one or the other terrestrial patterns is as automatic as fishing gets.

Since most of our rivers and streams have the same aquatic insects in them or the same terrestrial insects around them, it is easy to carry just a few fly patterns to be successful.

BILLINGS — Fly fishing enthusiasts are enjoying fishing terrestrial patterns during these dog days of summer.