I like to fish dry flies. It’s not that I dislike nymph fishing, but there’s something truly special about watching a trout rise to your fly. There are, however, times when fishing dry flies simply ...

After the original Mister Twister came onto the market, I did not tie a bucktail jig for a couple of years. Then I ran out of bucktail jigs and realized that they had not been replaced by soft plastic ...

A few weeks back, I began the task of tying shad flies in preparation for a fly-tying demonstration that I was asked to do for the Potomac Valley Fly Fishers in February. There are many variations in ...

this spring and early summer calls for big bugs that land with a splat. Because the major emergences are infrequent, cicada patterns may not be on every angler’s annual checklist of must-have flies.

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Trout take the bait when a simple little lure does its happy dance down deep. A fishing jig is little more than a hook with a lead head and some hair attached. The little lures shine wherever trout ...