A good fly reel will last a lifetime and help bring countless fish to hand. Fly fishing at its most basic level is just another technique for catching fish. On a deeper level, it’s both a blood sport ...

Step back in time ten years or so and fly fishing for carp was exploding. It became so popular that it served as fodder for fly fishing films, spawned new guide services, turned previously unknown ...

In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.

Thanks to films (and novellas) like A River Runs Through It along with historical figures like James A. Hensall waxing eloquent about the way it calms "over-taxed brains and wearied nerves," ...

One of my favorite things about guide trips is showing newcomers the size of the hook we will be using. They typically ask, "How do the fish see that tiny fly?" I tell them that I would rather be ...

Guides are cut from a different piece of cloth. I did that job for twenty years. I’m not saying I’m odd or different—though plenty of people might—but most guides I’ve known marched to their own beat.

IT’S MORNING at Kooyooe Pa’a Panunadu, or Pyramid Lake, in Nevada, and I’m fly fishing for the biggest cutthroat trout in the world. It’s my first time at the lake, and I’m here with Autumn Harry, the ...

September is often a great time for fly fishing because the days get shorter and cooler, and the trout are starting to show some activity, according to Drifthook. October, when brown trout season ...

When Aspen resident Joey Carlson talks about the healing power of fly-fishing, it isn’t a theoretical, abstract claim. As a former drug addict, he attests to fly-fishing playing an important role in ...