There’s an old adage in fishing and lure selection, light lures on light days, dark on dark days.  Maybe that’s the reason ...

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 ...

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 ...

Older anglers remember wet flies, not nymphs or emergers or pupa, but fully formed adult insects that have completed their cycle and are now drifting underwater with the current. They remember wet ...

Modern fly tying has seen many creative ideas that allow tiers to create a fly that is nearly an exact replica of a bug. For fly fishers, the idea is to use a fly that mimics a bug by means of tying ...