There’s much more to fly fishing than tying on a fly and whipping your line around a pond. Casting, hook setting and reeling all demand a level of finesse that goes beyond what anglers experience when ...
"For me it was an accident. I think most things that we fall in love with are accidents." Discover how Rebeca Granillo and other Utah women discovered a love for fly-fishing.
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.
You want to learn how to fly fish, or maybe you are just a little bit curious about what fly fishing is. You want to see if it's a fit but are unsure where to start. The internet is a good beginning, ...
A few months ago, I wrote two articles on Presentation—the skill of putting a fly in front of a fish in a way that makes it eat. This article sits in the same wheelhouse, but from a different angle.
The Iroquois chapter of Trout Unlimited is offering a four-day fly fishing school beginning April 23 at Carpenter’s Brook ...
A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...
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Fly fishing is hard to explain. The Madison shows why it matters.
For most people, a rod and reel are meant just to catch fish, but for artist Ben Miller, they're his paintbrush using a ...
We tie a fly to our leader and proceed to fish and that’s OK. But have you ever been curious enough to wonder how our flies compare to what trout actually eat, or what may trigger a trout to take our ...
Next month is the 50th anniversary of the little fish tale that sparked an angling frenzy. There’s even an opera slated in ...