What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout? If your answer is casting a bug imitation that floats and then watching a fish rise to sip it off the surface, I’d say you fall in with the ...
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 ...
WHEN ASKED ABOUT when he first began fishing, Loren Elliott answers a slightly different question: “I caught my first fish on a fly rod when I was 6.” After all, some of the most formative times for ...
Not only do I want to fly fish for the rest of my life, I want that life to be a long one—and toward the end, I want to still be able to fly fish of my own accord, without feebleness or crutch. I ...
The sport of fly fishing grew immensely during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, participation increased by 11 percent, a giant leap over the prior 10 years. And the numbers keep rising. It makes ...
Since March, life has been a bit, um, different. Isolation, Zoom calls, remote learning for the kids, scary pandemic news and a whacky-ass presidential election…One of the few things that has had any ...