Time was, mid-February saw the avid fly fisherman gnawing the bars of winter, waiting for April the way a caged lion waits for dinner. If he had nimble fingers and a good sense of color he might ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By learning how to tie a few simple styles of fly, you'll have a leg up in creating any bug you want to master at the vise. As ...

I got my first chance at actually tying a fly last October at the Casting for Recovery retreat at Lake Logan in Canton. I was more nervous about the fly-tying than the actually fly-fishing (which was ...

It's simple, easy to tie, kinda rough looking, and will catch fish when nothing else will. The Woolly Bugger is what I call an insurance fly. Catching a fish is never 100% guaranteed, no matter what ...

The wooly bugger is arguably the best-known fly pattern in the world, often the first fly a beginning fly fisherman ties and fishes. It is easy to tie, easy to fish and remarkably effective for a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 3—It's not too late to make that New Year's resolution, is it? Good, here it comes: Put down the spinning rod, pick up the ...

The first time I went fly fishing, my buddy summed up the sport in five words: “hurling money into the river.” That definitely felt like the case as I proceeded to lose $10 worth of store-bought flies ...