A few days ago, the trout were rising to midges. I could go into the details of which river, water temperature, weather, and everything else that goes into a day of fly fishing, but for now it’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

A 6- or 7-weight rod with a sink-tip line is ideal for fall streamer fishing. It’s a heavy set-up that helps you turn over ...

Tired of the same old dead drift? Got eyestrain from watching a tuft of yarn bouncing through the waves? Too much lead weight got you down? Then we’ve got just the deal for you. It’s called fishing ...

As I embark on my fifty-first season of fly-fishing and fly tying, I find the many changes that have altered these pastimes over that timespan to be nothing short of mindboggling. And of course they ...

Labor Day was a learning day for me. Dave and Emily Whitlock had contacted me about fishing the Bighorn River for a day. I let them know that I had Sept. 6 and 7 open and would love to get together, ...

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 ...

Camillus, N.Y. -- As a light rain fell late Thursday morning, Jake DeCapio looked out the window of the Wayfarer Company, a spin and fly fishing outfitters shop he owns along Nine Mile Creek. "Looks ...