Time was, mid-February saw the avid fly fisherman gnawing the bars of winter, waiting for April the way a caged lion waits for dinner. If he had nimble fingers and a good sense of color he might ...

When the wind’s a blowin’ and the river’s still partially frozen and a warm blanket sounds much better than waders, what’s a fly-fisherman to do? Daydreaming of spring isn’t enough for the Wyoming Fly ...

It's simple, easy to tie, kinda rough looking, and will catch fish when nothing else will. The Woolly Bugger is what I call an insurance fly. Catching a fish is never 100% guaranteed, no matter what ...

The wooly bugger is arguably the best-known fly pattern in the world, often the first fly a beginning fly fisherman ties and fishes. It is easy to tie, easy to fish and remarkably effective for a ...

Phil Horowitz of Holliston showed local anglers how to make a woolly bugger fly at a demonstration on the art of fly tying Sunday at Sudbury's Wayside Inn. Read on to see how the pros do it. By Kathy ...

Barb Henderson is an outdoors enthusiast, freelance writer and producer/host of outdoors radio television programming. Her column appears Friday in the Sun. Local fly fishers can tie one on at the Las ...