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 ...

BASALT – Are you one of those folks who have always had an ambition to tie your own flies? Getting started doesn’t have to be daunting, especially with the wealth of fly shops around here, the amazing ...

If there’s anything more rewarding than catching a fish on a fly tied with your own two hands, it is doing so with fly tying material salvaged from game animals you’ve harvested afield. In ...

The patter of soft conversation drifted around the table. Scissors snipped. Thread was wrapped. Deer hair was cut and stacked. It was another subzero night in Duluth, but beneath the poster-sized ...

Hearing Dave Allbaugh of Wet Fly Waterguides speak at a recent Maryland Trout Unlimited meeting on wet fly fishing on the Gunpowder, I knew I had to return to my “first love,” wet fly/soft hackle ...

Getting started with fly tying doesn’t have to be daunting, especially with the wealth of fly shops around here, the amazing books available, and the treasure troves of information on the internet ...

Older anglers remember wet flies, not nymphs or emergers or pupa, but fully formed adult insects that have completed their cycle and are now drifting underwater with the current. They remember wet ...

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