Sinking tips and sinking lines intimidated me for so long. I thought they were and extra hassle, and difficult to fish. I was wrong. Here's why.

If there’s anything more rewarding than catching a fish on a fly tied with your own two hands, it is doing so with fly tying ...

or large rivers where I know I'll be throwing streamers all day. Shooting heads are also a popular choice with the two-handed rod crowd. One thing I've learned in fly fishing is to not be ...

It seems that the older we get the faster time moves. 2024 is just a blur on this journey called life. We start each year ...

The staff of Mother Jones is, once again, rounding up the heroes and monsters of the past year. Importantly, this is a ...

People create lists of goals and new objectives that sometimes carry a negative tone. Thoughtful fly fishers do well constructing resolutions that better their angling game. Setting ...

He read fly fishing books from Joe Brooks about using streamers to catch trout and tried to make his own versions from the chicken feathers. He remembers attaching a streamer he made to an old bait ...

Some browns and rainbow trout are around. Casting spoons, jigs, swimbaits and (fly-fishing) streamers can be productive. Gaulke insists that yellow perch action should be good there as well.

Lake Erie is also ice free right now, and the walleye are biting from Cleveland to Huron, where some of the largest walleye of the season are being caught this week.

I was uneasy but excited heading back out alone in the dark to look for my deer. I’d finally outsmarted the old doe that’d ...