Fly fishing doesn’t come naturally to most people. Some may pick up the skills faster, but everyone has to work at it. And it is not just the casting, if you look deeper into fly fishing you will see ...

Snowdown brought out some of our local competitors to test their fly casting skills in a friendly event with male, female and ...

They were casting on a soccer pitch that was covered in clover, honing their skills to be used on future trips to the Brule for trout, or the Cloquet for smallmouth bass or maybe a little Douglas ...

The Basics of Fly Fishing Presentation • Casting: For most trout fishing scenarios, you won't have to make a long, booming cast. What is more important is your ability to make accurate, and clean, ...

So far this winter, I’ve re-read three John Gierach books, spent way too much time surfing YouTube for fishing videos, taught myself to tie the Tommy Lynch Drunk and Disorderly streamer, and ...

The last few times I traveled to the South Platte River at Deckers I left my favorite one-hand fly rod at home on purpose. It’s the perfect rod for the midge hatches that sometime occur on sunny ...

Worried, even scared, they wade into the flowing stream, often supported by someone who makes sure they don’t fall. They reach their rod back; they cast the line forward, as they have been taught, as ...

In his story “The Angler,” author Washington Irving found inspiration from an old fisherman, writing, “There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit and a pure ...

Spring was in the air at Reseda Park on Saturday morning, March 15, as a group of eager beginners lined the grassy edge of Reseda Lake, fly rods in hands. For many, it was their first time holding a ...

"'Presentation is everything.' No wiser words were told to me early in my fly fishing learning curve. It's a fact, the fly angler who is skilled in the presentation of his fly will catch more fish." ...