It's the off-season for most of us in the United States, but that doesn't mean your fly fishing progress should shut down until the Spring. Think of it like sports: you are the athlete, and you can ...

And it is not just the casting, if you look deeper into fly fishing you will see that you are stepping into a whole new world ...

This is a true story of the greatest and weirdest fly-fishing cast and catch I have ever seen. It happened back in 1996. No, it’s not me who made that catch. I am 75 years old and grew up fishing in ...

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They were casting on a soccer pitch that was covered in clover, honing their skills to be used on future trips to the Brule for trout, or the Cloquet for smallmouth bass or maybe a little Douglas ...

In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.

I stood in thigh-deep water, rain jacket zipped over borrowed waders, casting a fly rod repetitively across the Pemigewasset River in North Woodstock. A hard rain from the gray sky couldn’t spoil the ...

SCOTTSVILLE, N.Y. – For the last decade, the local chapter of a non-profit has offered a summer fly fishing retreat for breast cancer patients but this year, it’s short on funding and hoping the ...

Picture this: It’s 8:30 on a crisp September morning in the Great Smoky Mountains, and I’m about to step into a pair of chest-high waders for the very first time. My hands are trembling slightly—not ...

In the beginning, I had a classic Zebco 202 spin-cast combo, and it was good. At least, good enough for 5-year-old me. But I've owned many types of fishing rods since I was a freckle-faced boy who ...