What do a 10-hour flight, a lost luggage claim, and a broken fishing rod have in common? They've all been part of someone’s unforgettable international angling adventure. As anglers, we understand ...

Loon Outdoors heads to San Francisco Bay with Captain Patrick MacKenzie, where migratory striped bass move through the water just beyond the Golden Gate Bridge. MacKenzie talks through the Bay Area’s ...

Two of this week’s flies are for trout, and the other two head for the coast. Moonlit Fly Fishing’s Backcountry Halo Golden Stone is a buoyant foam dry built for broken water. Its segmented body comes ...

The Davy knot, the double surgeon’s knot, and a loop-to-loop leader connection are the winter fly fishing knots to rely on, since each takes very few fine finger movements. They replace the improved ...

Cory Cuje of Old Dominion Trout Bum fishes a pressured Pennsylvania limestone stream on a warm, sunny June day, when low, clear water and spooky fish called for fishing well outside the rod tip. Euro ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife wants to make its Columbia River Salmon and Steelhead Endorsement permanent. Anglers fishing the Columbia and many of its Washington tributaries for ...

Ben from Trident Fly Fishing runs through eight unusual fly rods on the market now, including a 5-foot-8 fiberglass 3-weight, ...

A chain of small articulated shanks, linked eye to eye, lets a Game Changer bend along its whole length. A body that’s fullest at the head and thinnest at the tail makes the rear sections swing as the ...

A week chasing winter steelhead on a Great Lakes tributary like New York’s Salmon River can run about $1,500 for one angler, guide included. Fly to the Oregon coast for the same week and airfare alone ...

Cold feet on a winter trout stream come mostly from choices made while getting dressed that morning, not just from the air and water temperatures. Four of those choices make most of the difference: ...

The most useful saltwater fly-fishing gifts are small accessories a flats angler packs for most trips: a diamond hook file, corrosion-resistant pliers, a line-cleaning kit, stripping guards, a UPF sun ...

Bill Ward has said he tied the first marabou crappie jig in 1957, for his father, Virgil Ward, who wanted a jig like the marabou streamers trout anglers were fishing on Arkansas’s White River. The ...