Using the correct tippet size allows your fly to cast properly and move naturally with the current. If your tippet is too heavy for your fly, it will pull the fly unnaturally through the current. If ...

Char can get big, but more impressive is their rich coloring. From giant Arctic Char to small native brookies, they resemble living paintings.

Fly fishing can be an intimidating approach to angling. After all, we are not really enticing fish to eat with a food source such as bait. Rather, we are mimicking a natural food source and doing what ...

When fly fishers reach out beyond their comfort zone and embrace saltwater fly fishing, there are numerous saltwater specific rods and reels from which to select. Fly rods are usually fast action, ...

DAMASCUS, Va. — A Damascus couple has launched Stone Fly Company, a fly fishing business that’s already catching on. The new water-sports business, run by Hunter and Anya Faust, seeks to help ...

April means many things to fly fishers. For most, it rings in the fair-weather fishing season, as the first waves of blue ...

Today we're out on the snowy shorelines targeting Steelhead, bottom bouncing with an artificial egg and yarn fly. I'm in the Lower Niagara River with Lewiston New York in front of me, Queenston ...

Fly fishing has often been compared to ballet. It requires grace. It requires precision. It requires rhythm. It requires ...

On Tuesday traveling angler Art Weston and Texas fishing guide Capt. Kirk Kirkland caught a giant ... while reporting on critical conservation issues, oftentimes with a fly rod or shotgun in hand. He ...

He loved the outdoors. He was an avid fly fisherman as well as a duck and goose hunter. He enjoyed identifying plants, birds, and fossils. He downhill skied at Snow Basin before there was a ski ...

(photo courtesy of Tom Tatum) As it turned out, Brightbill, 18, and a senior at Unionville High School, was a dedicated fly-fisherman, so much so that his planned senior project would be a how-to ...