Bass don’t disappear in winter – they move. Here’s where to find them and how to catch them on a fly rod, when cold water ...

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.

Many anglers believe that using a fly rod offers a practical advantage while fishing trout streams and lakes. It’s true that trout will often take a fly while the lure slingers and bait soakers can’t ...

If you find yourself stumped by picky trout with any regularity, it’s probably time for you to learn how to fish a soft hackle fly. These time-tested patterns are characterized by their wispy, “buggy” ...

Jeremiah Stillwagon, of Reelin' Family Fun, shows off a bluegill he'd caught at Ferrettie-Baugo Creek County Park in Osceola. Jeff Peterson of Mishawaka is happy to untangle any mysteries you may have ...

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There's a mounted rainbow trout on the wall at the auction house; it is Jimmy Carter's fish. And it's a good one — easily eighteen inches, and no angler worthy of the word would begrudge it ...

A few months ago, I wrote two articles on Presentation—the skill of putting a fly in front of a fish in a way that makes it eat. This article sits in the same wheelhouse, but from a different angle.

Step back in time ten years or so and fly fishing for carp was exploding. It became so popular that it served as fodder for fly fishing films, spawned new guide services, turned previously unknown ...

We fly-fishers really look forward to the fall, with its cool weather and big trout. But when it arrives, it races by at breakneck speed, or at least that’s how it seems to me. Once the streams begin ...

As I write this, I am fully aware that this could be "much ado about nothing." I'm only telling you what I heard when I was a young angler, and then what happened on a river years later. I'm not the ...