Even though it has been almost 45 years to the day, I still remember the first fish I caught on a fly rod. It was a fat bluegill pulled off its spawning bed in a farm pond which was part of the Little ...

Want to pick up fly fishing? Rig up and head out this May for spawning bluegills in Northern Michigan. May is a month of bounty. Asparagus is shooting up, flowers are blooming and morels are hiding ...

This isn’t the best time of year to catch a bluegill on a dry fly, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. They may venture into the shallows for a short time on a sunny day, but until the water ...

Harry Allen looks like a man in his early 40s, but he was born 51 years ago at the old Holland hospital on Main Street in Leesburg where Spanish Oaks apartments now sit. Harry looks younger than he is ...

Foam flies are a godsend for guides, they say, because they sit low on the water, offering fish a tempting profile of a large insect - such as a grasshopper, cricket or stonefly; they're ultra-durable ...

"Wood" was the answer — or at least a very short and key part of it. Terry and Roxanne Wilson are a husband-wife fly fishing team, authors and recognized experts on fly fishing for panfish. They ...

"OK, now you are just showing off!" I said to my fishing buddy Jim Kelso as he landed his fourth bluegill in a row, and to add insult to injury, this time he had a double on. In spite of me having the ...

Much of the year, a flyrod, like a golf club, is an instrument ill-suited to its designed purpose. This is particularly true around public bass lakes of the south, where it takes some real dedication ...