If you are lucky enough to be on the water at this time, your chances for a brown of trophy size are very real. In one form or another, the midge provides a constant and reliable food source that trout will at times select over all others. I watched him gently roll on his side to take in another meal. This fish wanted a real meal. Here we are, fall again, and the best fly fishing of the year is in the next couple of months.
Fall hatches in the Ozarks are among the best of the year.
I am going to concentrate this article on three fisheries which I feel offer the angler the greatest dry fly opportunities. As a beginning fly fisher, your main goal is to cast well enough to reach the fish with something close to the right fly. All of us started this way. As we progress in the sport, we hear terms like emerger, nymph, or dun. The answers, for me at least, opened up a whole new world of fly fishing and tying possibilities and answered some nagging questions.