By swapping out the bulky dumbbell eyes for a brass cone, he created a more streamlined profile that allowed the fly to sink faster. He also changed the body from Estaz to Ice Dubbing further slimming ...

February is almost over, the skies are getting bluer, I haven't worn a thermal vest for weeks. And the trout season will soon open. Hurrah! Meanwhile, over cups of tea and jugs of ale, a debate rages ...

BEND, Ore. (AP) - Like a fly-fishing veteran, Branson Broderick set the hook, stripped his line in, then bent down to net the flopping rainbow trout at Bend’s Shevlin Pond. He deftly removed the hook ...

Thanks to films (and novellas) like A River Runs Through It along with historical figures like James A. Hensall waxing eloquent about the way it calms "over-taxed brains and wearied nerves," ...

One thing I pondered recently on a river in Montana: Maybe fly-fishing doesn’t have to be about hooking fish. The sport, or art, or however you regard it, is in reading the river, thinking like a ...

Before Jerry Neverve loads up his rod, reel and gaiters for his next fly-fishing trip into the Rockies, Sierra Nevadas or even the Ozarks, the avid outdoorsman plans to drop by his neighborhood ...