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 ...

A couple of years ago, I was fishing with a group of fly fishermen that included two or three younger guys in their mid to ...

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.

Fly fishing experts share techniques for catching trout, bass, and crappie in Pennsylvania, including Euro nymphing and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...