On July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong was becoming the first man to put bootprints on the moon, I was getting my first introduction to the sport of fly-fishing on an icy mountain stream in Idaho. It ...
What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout? If your answer is casting a bug imitation that floats and then watching a fish rise to sip it off the surface, I’d say you fall in with the ...
A close second would be, “What (or how many) fly patterns do I need to have to be successful most of the time? Those are both valid queries, and ones which reflect the quintessence of fly-fishing. On ...
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It might seem mere coincidence that two men from Colorado’s Front Range should release important books on fly-tying just days apart. The concurrence continues when we discover that the two are ...
Fly-tying is a fabulous hobby. It is therapeutic. It relaxes the mind and body. It saves fishermen money, but it is not necessary to be a fisherman to enjoy making insect imitations. It relieves cabin ...
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Aleta is a writer living in the Rocky Mountain foothills of Santa Fe, New Mexico. She enjoys vinyasa flow on the park grass with her two young boys. New perk: Easily find new routes and hidden gems, ...
this spring and early summer calls for big bugs that land with a splat. Because the major emergences are infrequent, cicada patterns may not be on every angler’s annual checklist of must-have flies.
If fly-fishing is so simple, how come it seems like every guide in Colorado carries 5,000 flies to the river? Good question. The reality is that most guides tend to use the same 15 or so flies all ...
George Daniel, a Pennsylvania native who has competed several times in the World Fly Fishing Championships, has taken the helm at Penn State’s fly fishing program. The university’s Department of ...
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