One of the few remaining additions to my angling repertoire is to learn the art of fly-tying. For no apparent reason I have avoided tying my own flies, and instead opted for the effortless visit to ...

I must have tied close to a thousand flies over the years and I thought I had looked at recipes from all angles including a trout’s view. What I mean is, when a person first gets into fly-tying he or ...

A couple Central Pennsylvania sportsmen’s organizations have opened registration for the 2020 editions of their annual winter fly tying classes for beginners and advanced tier alike. Students will ...

Vulnerability. That s what the predator is looking for. And that s just what this pattern speaks to a hungry trout. The kinky tail suggests that this mayfly is stuck in its shuck. The headlong wings ...

Time was, mid-February saw the avid fly fisherman gnawing the bars of winter, waiting for April the way a caged lion waits for dinner. If he had nimble fingers and a good sense of color he might ...

Grand Marais, Minn.- If you climb the spiral staircase, you will think you have ascended to fly-tying heaven. Not necessarily a tidy heaven, but heavenly enough if you care about making crippled ...

He opens a silver box about the size of a thin paperback book to reveal several rows of neatly displayed flies. The yellow-and-black imitation bugs are lined up side-by-side. There’s a row of crane ...

Fly-tying booms across Maine each winter, a wonderfully pleasant pastime that requires no license to participate -- just good eyes, nimble fingers and sedulous nature. Fly-tying booms across Maine ...