Tom Yocom is in Conservation World at the Illinois State Fair each day to teach people the art of fly fishing, and he says compared to regular fishing, fly fishing is “a little more like shooting ...

Elizabeth Greig, one of the country’s most accomplished women at tying fly-fishing lures who was known for her adeptness and her unusual technique, died on Sept. 7 at Highlands Lake Center-Genesis ...

Jack Bauknecht finds relaxation tying lures for fly fishing, a skill the Vietnam veteran learned in Pensacola as an alternative therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. While tying the tiny, ...

Fishing with hand-tied flies is akin to hunting with duck decoys. A handmade fly is an artificial lure that either floats on or beneath the water’s surface. Made with brilliantly colored feathers, a ...

Saltwater fly fishing is the fastest-growing segment of angling in the United States, according to the American Fly Fishing Trade Association. And, Southwest Florida is a player in this sport that can ...

"You have to be prepared to move things on a molecular level," is one of those catch phrases that Bill Logan, a New Jersey based fine artist and fly tier, likes to quote. Those words might also ...

Like many fly fishermen in Western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, ...

The whole concept for a story on the names people call fishing gear started when I stumbled on an ad for a Berkley bait called Extruded Maggot. A mental image immediately came to mind of a maggot ...

I use to feel a bit awkward — a fishing writer and charter captain who did not know how to fly fish. So last week, I gave it a try under the direction of expert fly instructor and fly fishing guide Ed ...