Tired of the same old dead drift? Got eyestrain from watching a tuft of yarn bouncing through the waves? Too much lead weight got you down? Then we’ve got just the deal for you. It’s called fishing ...

A swung soft hackle or wet fly angled 45 degrees downstream is as classic in trout and salmon fishing as apple pie is to ...

To help pass a few long winter evenings in the past couple of months, I read once again several classic fly-fishing books that had greatly influenced me during my early years. Absorbing the familiar ...

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 ...

Fly fishing during the ancient times has little resemblance to what fly anglers are doing today. Long gone are the silk fishing lines and horsehair leaders, replaced by engineered fly lines designed ...

Modern fly tying has seen many creative ideas that allow tiers to create a fly that is nearly an exact replica of a bug. For fly fishers, the idea is to use a fly that mimics a bug by means of tying ...

guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

One of the best parts of summer fly fishing is being able to leave your waders at home. Walking through a trout stream unencumbered by chest waders is a game-changer – you realize that you’re not ...