It's the off-season for most of us in the United States, but that doesn't mean your fly fishing progress should shut down until the Spring. Think of it like sports: you are the athlete, and you can ...

Winter drags on, but The Fly Fishing Show offers gear testing, casting lessons, and a hands-on reminder that fly-fishing season is close.

This is a true story of the greatest and weirdest fly-fishing cast and catch I have ever seen. It happened back in 1996. No, it’s not me who made that catch. I am 75 years old and grew up fishing in ...

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I stood in thigh-deep water, rain jacket zipped over borrowed waders, casting a fly rod repetitively across the Pemigewasset River in North Woodstock. A hard rain from the gray sky couldn’t spoil the ...

In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.

One morning in February, 15-year-old Maxine McCormick leaned her fly rod against her shoulder and watched her coach, Chris Korich, warm up. Wind chopped the surface of the shallow casting pond. Korich ...

Karen Hussey is not one to let others do for her. With two children, a husband and a full-time job at the state Department of Transportation, life for this 54-year-old Fairfield resident orbits around ...

Fly fishing at its most basic level is just another technique for catching fish. On a deeper level, it’s both a blood sport and an art form that is partly based around making the act of fishing more ...

SCOTTSVILLE, N.Y. – For the last decade, the local chapter of a non-profit has offered a summer fly fishing retreat for breast cancer patients but this year, it’s short on funding and hoping the ...

A bobber is a device that alerts an angler that a fish has taken his bait. It comes in many forms, including the universally ...