In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.

"The Morning Hatch" is a daily dose of anything fly fishing, human interest, and sometimes from left field. It will be short, sweet, informative, and hopefully entertaining. Look at it as a morning ...

Successful nymphing starts with your setup. A two-fly nymph rig is often the way to go – it allows you to cover a wider range of the water column, and it adds variety to your patterns. I’ll typically ...

In my experience, the best fishing guide usually isn’t the most expensive one – or the one with the pretty website that shows up as the first result on your Google search. Often, it’s the guy who’s ...

Ever wonder what it’s like to step in the boots of a fishing guide? By all means, guide life is not for everyone, and requires someone who truly lives and breathes fly fishing. From working weeks on ...

“Most other people who come fly-fishing or who guide are so focused on the fish and wanting to catch these big trophy fish, and that’s about it,” says Erica Nelson, one of only two Indigenous women ...

Father’s Day makes for a great excuse to get dad out on the water. That the holiday is in the middle of June—arguably the best fishing month of the year—makes it all even better. Tarpon and bonefish ...

On the rushing rivers of southwest Montana, Dave Behm became an expert at baiting trout to bite on his homemade flies. As a guide, he led dozens of fly-fishing tours on the Madison River, not far from ...

An Erie steelhead fly fishing guide wants to expand the horizons of those who seek these migrating fish each fall and winter. Karl Weixlmann, 62, has been guiding anglers for 28 years on various ...

Alberto Rey is pictured here standing in Canadaway Creek, which just happens to be right in his backyard. Rey has been running a successful steelhead fly-fishing guiding business on this creek for ...