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 ...

_We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn more › Tom Whiting noticed a pattern. It was the early 1990s, and fly-tiers from around the ...

These damsel flies show nymph and adult patterns. The one on the top right is tied with a blue newspaper bag, recycled from the Standard-Examiner delivery one morning. It had been a dark and stormy ...

Fly fishing isn't only about fly fishing. It's a much broader net that encompasses literature, painting, sculpture, culture, lifestyle, and the always popular, fly tying. I wouldn't say I'm a ...

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.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fly tying is supposed to be the game angler’s favourite winter pastime. While temperatures drop in the rivers and the ...

, fast-shooting heads, fast-drying UV resin, and even pre-made wings, legs, and tails that let you whip up flies faster than ever. This might be why spun-hair bass bugs aren’t commonplace in fly boxes ...

He opens a silver box about the size of a thin paperback book to reveal several rows of neatly displayed flies. The yellow-and-black imitation bugs are lined up side-by-side. There’s a row of crane ...