Few flies can go from a farm pond to the striper surf to a tarpon flat without missing a beat — the Gurgler is one of them. Jack Gartside’s foam-bodied topwater pattern has been fooling fish for ...

Fish a soft hackle fly by swinging it down-and-across through runs, dead-drifting it in a tandem nymph rig, stripping it like a streamer, or greasing it up to fish the surface film. The pattern's real ...