A close second would be, “What (or how many) fly patterns do I need to have to be successful most of the time? Those are both valid queries, and ones which reflect the quintessence of fly-fishing. On ...

In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.

As I embark on my fifty-first season of fly-fishing and fly tying, I find the many changes that have altered these pastimes over that timespan to be nothing short of mindboggling. And of course they ...

Here is a tip that will increase your success on the water. Once you understand it, everything about your fishing changes. Bass anglers—especially on the tournament scene—talk constantly about ...

If you haven’t tried chasing smallmouth bass with a fly rod, you’re in for a treat. These fish are... The post Your Go-To Fly ...

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The earliest recorded reference to fishing with an artificial fly, he says, comes from Macedonia around 3,000 years ago. A description of a simple fly from those ancient times, made from red wool and ...

I don’t know if you’d consider it a clinical condition or not, but I have a long-standing predisposition for old, soft hackle wet flies and Catskill-style dry flies. The logical result, no doubt, of ...

We fly-fishers really look forward to the fall, with its cool weather and big trout. But when it arrives, it races by at breakneck speed, or at least that’s how it seems to me. Once the streams begin ...

Grasshoppers, crickets, ants, beetles, bees, dragonflies, cicadas“¦ There’s a whole mess bugs classified as terrestrials. No matter the insect, when a breeze blows any of these land-based trout snacks ...