The last few times I traveled to the South Platte River at Deckers I left my favorite one-hand fly rod at home on purpose. It’s the perfect rod for the midge hatches that sometime occur on sunny ...

The trick to getting good at casting isn't a secret, high tech, or ground breaking. it's all about practice, practice, practice. Show up at the park, the pond, your backyard – doesn't matter. Rip a ...

Slowing down is a simple tip but not always easy to do. Here is a drill to help you engrain the habit of "less is more" into your casting stroke to give you a better fly cast. Learning to cast a fly ...

When I let the cast go, I could hear the fly line whistle through my rod guides. I envisioned a tight loop uncoiling with perfect precision — a cast that transcended even its purpose. This was in the ...

There’s much more to fly fishing than tying on a fly and whipping your line around a pond. Casting, hook setting and reeling all demand a level of finesse that goes beyond what anglers experience when ...

Start sprucing up your fall fly-fishing with fly-fishing experts Darrel and Michael Martin who will be hosting “The Fundamentals of Fly Casting” from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 3. The class will ...

When we wrote about the Sage Circa ($775) for our fly rod roundup last spring, we hadn’t yet tested it in depth. Our trip to Scarp Ridge Lodge in Crested Butte, CO, provided the opportunity to take ...

When a fishing buddy of mine offered to sell me a graphite Sage rod for a hundred bucks, I snapped at the chance without a second thought, like a brook trout sucking in a yellow humpy on a mountain ...

The first thing you notice about Maxine McCormick is that she is cuter than a truckload of baby ducks. Then, right off, you can tell she is poised, clear and bright, and that her squirrel-like voice ...