Labor Day was a learning day for me. Dave and Emily Whitlock had contacted me about fishing the Bighorn River for a day. I let them know that I had Sept. 6 and 7 open and would love to get together, ...

Wet Fly Fishing - Wet fly fishing is a technique that uses weights to sink the fly to the bottom of a body of water. Considering that trout are generally bottom feeding fish, especially when there no ...

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 ...

ROCK CREEK - Effortlessly, with a flick of his 111/2-foot rod, Bill Gray roll casts 40 feet of line over a deep, swift run. Another flick of the long, limber rod mends the line, swimming the brace of ...

Fly fishing during the ancient times has little resemblance to what fly anglers are doing today. Long gone are the silk fishing lines and horsehair leaders, replaced by engineered fly lines designed ...

Tired of the same old dead drift? Got eyestrain from watching a tuft of yarn bouncing through the waves? Too much lead weight got you down? Then we’ve got just the deal for you. It’s called fishing ...

Picture this: Crisp, early-morning air, the sound of a rushing stream, and (of course) a six-pack of one of the season's finest brews. Sounds pretty damn perfect, right? You're just missing one thing: ...

Most trout fishermen wade streams or rivers and cast a fly. On Lough Corrib, fishermen traditionally drift in a boat and cast with the wind using a four-fly rig on fly line with a 25-foot leader. It ...

When the current fly-fishing boom started in America several decades ago, advances in the technology of rods and lines, development of synthetic fly-tying materials and sophisticated new fly patterns, ...