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 ...

Classic wet-fly patterns are still favored by many anglers in the British Isles, where traditional "loch-style" fishing with "teams" of wet flies is still one of the best methods of taking fish on the ...

Traditionally fished in the down-and-across presentation common to wet flies, the natural materials of a soft hackle fly impart dramatic and lifelike motion in river currents, resembling mayflies and ...

I don’t know about you but once I’ve wished everyone a Happy New Year, I’ve pretty much had my fill of winter. I suspect I’m not alone in that regard. And while others might be turning their thoughts ...

In preparation for a sacred day in the lives of many Northern Michigan outdoors people — that being opening day of trout season on April 28 — I asked several local fly fishing fanatics what six flies ...