The local rivers are holding some incredible fly fishing between their banks. Anglers looking to maximize their time on the water are resorting to fishing with dry dropper rigs and for good reasons.

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

The author holds a landlocked salmon caught on a nymph rig on the Rapid River. Credit: Courtesy of Marc McDonald If you’re fishing Maine rivers right now, nymph rigs are the most effective way to ...