, fast-shooting heads, fast-drying UV resin, and even pre-made wings, legs, and tails that let you whip up flies faster than ever. This might be why spun-hair bass bugs aren’t commonplace in fly boxes ...

It seems there are many books on tying flies for trout on the market, but few dealing exclusively with warmwater species. To construct a fly to be used to fish for pike or bass or American shad, tiers ...

Jan. 3—It's not too late to make that New Year's resolution, is it? Good, here it comes: Put down the spinning rod, pick up the fly rod. I've been fishing Roaring River for 40 years, and usually bring ...

Kevin Kurz used his fly rod to whip a streamer over his head several times, then laid it perfectly in the shade of branches hanging over the water. The fly started to sink ... but it didn’t get far. A ...

Fly South in Nashville is launching their fly tying classes for 2011. March 19th Troy Basso will hold a tying class for smallmouth bass flies. Basso has 10 original patterns being marketed by ...

Fly fishers in Caldwell County joined together at the Patterson School Foundation Saturday for a Tie-a-thon to tie flies for use in charity and education. Twenty four tiers attended to the event to ...

Few flies are as ubiquitously potent as the Clouser Minnow. Invented by legendary fly angler Bob Clouser in the late 1980s, the pattern quickly proved it had far more uses than originally intended.

Low-light conditions are ideal for poppers. In direct sunlight, bass often hunker down to stay cool and hidden – but when the risk of exposure is lower, they’ll move into shallow water to feed.