Getting started with fly tying doesn’t have to be daunting, especially with the wealth of fly shops around here, the amazing ...

On July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong was becoming the first man to put bootprints on the moon, I was getting my first introduction to the sport of fly-fishing on an icy mountain stream in Idaho. It ...

James Payne and I covered fly tying last week but neither of us actually went through the process of tying. I will try to cover the basics from a bare ...

Keystone Fly Fishers will be offering a warm water fly tying class to cover the flies to be used on our local lakes, ponds and rivers.

DULUTH — "I’m a professional stay-at-home dad with a YouTube channel," Gunnar Brammer said when asked to describe his job. "I guess I’m a professional fly tier, too, since I teach fly-tying classes ...

ASHEVILLE – There's yoga and there's meditation. There's chanting and there's deep-belly breathing. And then there's fly-tying. For those of us trying to get away from the stress of the flashy, ...

In an unlikely order of events, Henry Ramsay was tying flies for a couple years before he ever saw anyone fly-fishing. Inspired by the old “American Sportsman” television program, he made as earnest a ...

Dennis Potter peers over his glasses to make sure everyone gets it, the students who have driven from Detroit to take an all day fly-tying class at his home. Suddenly he bellows, "No. No. No!" The ...

With deer season over for another year, I now find myself transitioning into “Oh, how I wish winter was over” mode. Yes, I’m aware that winter doesn’t officially arrive until Dec. 21 this year, but ...

WARRENTON -- Forty years ago, on a secret chicken farm in Warrenton, Henry Hoffman started a revolution in fly-fishing. Hoffman, 73, is a meticulous fly-fisherman who spent decades studying the ...