Although I travel to Florida on a yearly basis, I never venture south far enough to catch bonefish. In spite of this, I have a box full of flies just for bones. So why would I have these flies in my ...

There is a bit of Ahab in every angler. The mythical fish, elusive piscine adversaries that remain untamed and untackled, swim through the pools of the mind, ever in sight, ever out of reach. As a ...

Let’s say you’ve been fly casting to trout for a while now. You’ve experienced world-class dry fly fishing on the Fryingpan, Big Horn and the Madison, conquered the spooky cutthroat of alpine lakes, ...

You can judge a sportsman’s show by the quality of the preeminent authorities it brings in. Friday through Sunday, The Fly Fishing Show at the Royal Plaza Trade Center at 181 Boston Post Road in ...

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Let’s say you’ve experienced world-class dry fly fishing on the Fryingpan, Big Horn and the Madison, conquered the spooky cutthroat of alpine lakes, and have floated the Green River to the Roaring ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Let’s say you’ve been fly-casting to trout for a while now. You’ve experienced world-class dry-fly-fishing on the Fryingpan, Big Horn and the Madison, conquered the spooky cutthroat of alpine lakes, ...