There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched over their fly-tying vise on a cold winter’s night is about as romantic as ...

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On July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong was becoming the first man to put bootprints on the moon, I was getting my first introduction to the sport of fly-fishing on an icy mountain stream in Idaho. It ...

The 2026 Columbia River fish passage plan has shifted the game: dams are spilling less water while maintaining strict fish passage targets, forcing fish into tighter, more pressured zones where ...

The most important part of tying a topwater bass fly is putting enough hair on the hook. So, one Saturday morning in early ...

When it comes to fly fishing in Pennsylvania, there are many techniques and patterns that work well to catch trout, bass and crappie. More than 20 fly tying experts gathered April 23 to share their ...