From May through early September, when you need a fly that will match a mayfly hatch, consider the Hackle Stacker. It’s a subtle pattern that has the profile to make it readily visible to the angler ...

The trout weren’t rising at 6:45 a.m. when I waded into the South Platte River in Eleven Mile Canyon. I was there to fish the hatch of small black-bodied, white-winged mayflies known to fly fishers as ...

Bob Quigley developed the Hackle Stacker style of tying mayflies on California’s Fall River in 1988. The fly lands lightly on the water, maintains a mayfly silhouette and, with a white parachute-style ...