The Mickey Finn bucktail streamer has been catching North Country trout and salmon since the 1930s. Learn the history and ...

The first time I wandered into a fly shop on my own, I had no idea where to begin. I had been fly fishing before, but always on a boat and with the help of a partner or friends. Being alone—and ...

As winter creeps in it often means a drop in opportunity for fly fishermen. That depends on where you live, of course, but for many of us, river time becomes vise time. If you’re new to fly tying, ...

This week we have a very important answer to a very important question: when is the right time to use a snap, or should I use a snap swivel, or should I tie my fishing lure directly to my fishing line ...

We are out here on the lower Niagara River in the month of December, and today we're looking for trout. We're going to be running a T-Turn bait rig, using the new x-small T-Turn, with a line down to a ...

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 ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - UK Student Noah Tinch was just one day away from his 19th birthday when he died in a fly fishing accident. Brett Tinch is Noah’s dad. “Noah was an amazing person. He was kind ...

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” ...

As the Connecticut River Valley thaws, Dartmouth students are casting their lines into a new season. For members of Bait and Bullet — the College’s century-old hunting and fishing club — spring marks ...

Emergers and nymphs are often lumped together because they’re both fished subsurface, and they both imitate aquatic insects in pre-adult life stages. Some nymphs and emergers may look similar, but ...

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...