On July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong was becoming the first man to put bootprints on the moon, I was getting my first introduction to the sport of fly-fishing on an icy mountain stream in Idaho. It ...

Delbert McLain was seen going into Marvin Pincus’s house the other evening. We wondered on it a bit, because those two were ...

Dennis Potter peers over his glasses to make sure everyone gets it, the students who have driven from Detroit to take an all day fly-tying class at his home. Suddenly he bellows, "No. No. No!" The ...

VENTURA, Calif. Bill Blackstone approaches his art as a witch would a brew. A pinch of false fingernails. A splash of puff paint. A glob of epoxy. A dash of beetle shells. Toss in a silk flower leaf, ...

I just finished setting up the card table over the dogs’ kennel box in the back room. It’ll probably stay up at least until the trout opener, because it holds all the fly tying materials to the left ...

Few flies are as ubiquitously potent as the Clouser Minnow. Invented by legendary fly angler Bob Clouser in the late 1980s, the pattern quickly proved it had far more uses than originally intended.

Fly-tying skills will be demonstrated and taught by some of the region's top fly-tiers in programs and classes offered by sportsmen's organizations and others. Yellow Breeches Anglers, Boiling Springs ...

Area fly-fishers will have an unparalleled opportunity to learn about fly-tying from the masters Feb. 13 at the 34th annual Fly Tying Clinic. The event, sponsored by the West Denver Chapter of Trout ...

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 ...

I wouldn't say I'm a fly-tying fanatic; I definitely wouldn't say I'm any good at it, but I can one hundred percent say that I thoroughly enjoy it. And it is good for me - it's good for my brain, it's ...