Although wet flies will take trout from deep pools and cold spring inlets, they are most effective when fished through ...

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 ...

A couple of years ago, I was fishing with a group of fly fishermen that included two or three younger guys in their mid to late twenties, as I recall. All of them had a bit of fly-fishing experience, ...

In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.

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The earliest recorded reference to fishing with an artificial fly, he says, comes from Macedonia around 3,000 years ago. A description of a simple fly from those ancient times, made from red wool and ...

Do you realize that wet fly fishing is the original method of fly fishing? It dates back to medieval times and wasn't supplanted by dry fly fishing until the 1850s. Nymph fishing didn't come along ...

While picking up mail at the post office recently, I crossed paths with a local fly fishing acquaintance and stopped to chat.