Fly tying and football season go together like peanut butter and jelly. For me and many fly tyers in the valley, not much is better than setting up a vise in front of a TV screen with a football game ...

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, ...

Fly tyers fall into two distinct categories. On one side, you have the perfectionists who find great pleasure in anatomical exactness when creating replicas of insects. On the other side are the ...

Trout eagerly snatched up the simple offering cast into the shallow pool. Many, many years ago, sort of like the “build it and they will come” philosophy, I would throw out most any fly from the box ...

Few flies are as ubiquitously potent as the Clouser Minnow. Invented by legendary fly angler Bob Clouser in the late 1980s, the pattern quickly proved it had far more uses than originally intended.

Joe Meyer caught a brook trout somewhere in South Pass on the first fly he ever tied. It was a black gnat pattern and wasn’t pretty, but it caught an 11-inch fish. “There’s nothing like catching a ...

Thinking of taking that next step and tying your own flies? For most, this phase comes later in their fly-fishing career, but it’s never too early to start. You would think tying your own (when the ...

There's an old joke in the ranks of Bighorn River fishing guides that goes: "There are old guides and there are bold guides - but Frank Johnson is too old to be bold!" Just kidding, Frank. The truth ...

Mid-winter weather shuts down most of the fishing in our area. But there’s good news: This is the heart of the fly tying season. And this is not just the province of the trout guys. Mid-Atlantic tiers ...