When you head out to the river, how often are you 100% confident in knowing what flies you should tie on? Sure, if there’s a ...

With over 25 years of fly fishing experience, I reveal the professional techniques and strategies that will transform your ...

photo by Chase McCoy If you've never fished for smallmouth bass with a fly rod, you are missing out ... with that of a largemouth. I love fishing for largemouth, but the smallmouth is a different ...

A freestone stream presents challenging issues during the winter. It takes patience, finesse and a high degree of resilience to achieve success on the Eagle River during the cold weather months. The ...

Over the winter, Sam purposely tied some nickel-sized crab flies in green because he ... a 9 weight fly rod is the minimum I would use. Sam Alsop was fishing a 7 weight. A blackfish is a lot ...

Every fall, about the time most outdoors enthusiasts across the Northland put away their rods and reels and set their sights ...

but the act of swinging flies with a fly rod is fairly straightforward. (You can also swing a lure with a conventional rod-and-reel, but we’ll keep the focus strictly on fly fishing here.) Read Next: ...