Thanks to his innovative and fish-worthy flies, A.K. Best is one of the most famous and respected fly tyers in the country. In “A.K. Best’s Fly Box,” the master invites readers into his fly box, where ...

BOULDER • At 91, A.K. Best sometimes thinks back to the things his dad said. “Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, pay attention,” the man used to say back in Depression-era Iowa, where he farmed ...

Fly tying and fly fishing master and longtime Boulder resident Archie Kenneth “A.K.” Best died on Aug. 20 in Boulder at 92 years old. The cause of his death was an aortic aneurysm, according to ...