For the longest time, anglers would tell me that what they landed their fish on was a San Juan worm. And even though I used various worm patterns, I never could seem to catch anything on one. Of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anglers who've used a Hare’s Ear Nymph, Walt’s Worm or Adams Dry Fly, can learn how to create them for themselves this winter, as ...

One of the area's better fly-tyers called the other day to announce that he was handcrafting some flies for Harborview Bait & Tackle in Stratford. He is making a variety of patterns to be sold at the ...

Here’s another easy one that, tied small, with a slim profile should produce wherever trout, bass and bluegill feast on damselfly emergers. Keep a small selection of these tied, weighted and ...

Cinder worms spawn annually on the surface and are a highly desirable food source for striped bass in the spring. Saltwater fly anglers wait anxiously for the event to start each year as that the mud ...

Several years ago, an old man, who I really didn’t know, died and his wife gave me a grocery bag full of his fly-tying material. And for a long time, it sat untouched in the corner of my office. Over ...

Decisions, decisions. If you’re a fly angler, you have lots to make. Yes, there are plenty of different lures on tackle-shop shelves, but not nearly as many as there are different fly patterns in well ...