Fly tying and fly fishing master and longtime Boulder resident Archie Kenneth "A.K." Best died on Aug. 20 in Boulder at 92 years old. The cause of his death was an aortic aneurysm, according to ...
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 ...
BOULDER • At 91, A.K. Best sometimes thinks back to the things his dad said. “Wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, pay attention,” the man used to say back in Depression-era Iowa, where he farmed ...
Joe Nicklo doesn’t want to be known as the guy who killed the sacred tradition of fly-tying. But maybe he wouldn’t mind being known as the guy who reinvented it. Or better still, the guy who ...
For Amanda Winkelman, fly fishing is a lot like life. It’s hard, not always fair, and it requires perseverance—yet there’s so much beauty along the way. Sure, the pursuit is now her passion, but the ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) - Every time Joe Messinger Jr. ties one of his trademark deer-hair frogs, he’s carrying on a family legacy that dates back almost a century. His father, Joe Messinger Sr., ...
From the archives: The Drumming Log is a column that published in The Frederick News-Post from 1965 to 2006 and was written by local outdoorsman and columnist Jim Gilford. This column published Feb. 3 ...