Advertisement For a long time, I caught most of my river trout on the surface, and started to think I was a pretty hot dry-fly angler. I wasn’t. Instead, I’d come to rely on dry flies because I couldn’t catch much on nymphs, streamers and other subsurface patterns. And the reason, I eventually learned, was because I wasn’t fishing deep enough. River fish tend to hold near the bottom, where the current is slower. Plus, most of their diet is … Continue reading 3 easy ways to get your fly down deeper (where the big ones are!)