Layne Smith is a fly-tying encyclopedia. Mention just about any fly and "Smitty," as he is known to fly-fishers throughout the bay area, can show you how to tie it. Saltwater, freshwater, warm water, ...

Fly tying and football season go together like peanut butter and jelly. For me and many fly tyers in the valley, not much is better than setting up a vise in front of a TV screen with a football game ...

Fly fishing is synonymous with trout. When most people think about fly fishing, they conjure images of mountain streams and fish sipping mayflies and caddisflies off the surface. It’s true that the ...

This time of year, tying flies for a return to the trout streams in the warmer weather of the coming months has been a personal wintertime ritual for more than fifty years. Many other avid fly anglers ...

It seems there are many books on tying flies for trout on the market, but few dealing exclusively with warmwater species. To construct a fly to be used to fish for pike or bass or American shad, tiers ...

WARSAW, Mo. (KY3/MO Dept. of Conservation) - Fly tying is the artistry to create fish-catching lures. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will offer a series of free Beginner Fly Trying ...

FAYETTEVILLE - The Falling Spring Chapter of Trout Unlimited will offer a series of free fly tying classes beginning at 7 p.m. Jan. 6 and continuing for eight successive Wednesdays in the Community ...

ROSCOE — Dennis Skarka, the owner of Catskill Flies, was whipping a fly-fishing pole up and down inside his store on Main Street, the pole bending like the wiggling tail of a fish. Then the phone ...