It’s that time of the year when wet fly fishing for trout is at itsbest. Somehow it’s in between the earlier season of trout fishing with small streamers, nymphs and muddlers and the dry fly fishing ...

A close second would be, “What (or how many) fly patterns do I need to have to be successful most of the time? Those are both valid queries, and ones which reflect the quintessence of fly-fishing. On ...

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 ...

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Do you realize that wet fly fishing is the original method of fly fishing? It dates back to medieval times and wasn't supplanted by dry fly fishing until the 1850s. Nymph fishing didn't come along ...

I don’t know if you’d consider it a clinical condition or not, but I have a long-standing predisposition for old, soft hackle wet flies and Catskill-style dry flies. The logical result, no doubt, of ...

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 ...