To help pass a few long winter evenings in the past couple of months, I read once again several classic fly-fishing books that had greatly influenced me during my early years. Absorbing the familiar ...

I don’t know about you but once I’ve wished everyone a Happy New Year, I’ve pretty much had my fill of winter. I suspect I’m not alone in that regard. And while others might be turning their thoughts ...

Classic wet-fly patterns are still favored by many anglers in the British Isles, where traditional "loch-style" fishing with "teams" of wet flies is still one of the best methods of taking fish on the ...

Older anglers remember wet flies, not nymphs or emergers or pupa, but fully formed adult insects that have completed their cycle and are now drifting underwater with the current. They remember wet ...