Fly fishing has consumed me and given me a life. Even as a hobby, it was something I could get lost in. It challenged me creatively, physically, skillfully, and mentally. It is art, athletics, sport, ...

In New York’s Catskills, the cradle of American dry fly fishing, a total beginner learns the sport—and its history ...

Resorts from Montana to Virginia take the stress out of logistics, so you can focus on what matters: catching fish on ...

When I first started trout fishing, I was given an invaluable piece of advice: start with dry flies. Talk to any trout angler, and they’ll tell you that fishing with subsurface flies simply catches ...

Traditional Spey fishing is closely associated with steelhead, salmon, and big rivers. It’s a popular fly fishing technique in the Pacific Northwest that requires long rods, special lines, and ...

Women in Offaly have been invited to join an exciting new fly fishing course in the nearby Laois Angling Centre (near ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... I was downriver when my husband, Ben, stuck his first trout on the Arkansas River. We’d hired a guide, Liam, from The Next Eddy, 129 W. First St., to take us ...

The slow-sinking fly with its flash and pulsing marabou is a fly-fishing classic, known typically as a smallmouth bass fly. Because of the different materials, it’s more of an advanced pattern, but ...

Last year in this space — the exact space, my March 2025 column — I shared 10 items to begin a tacklebox. Most anglers start with a spinning rod and lure or bait, especially youngsters; and as I write ...

Explore America's best fly-fishing spots with riverside cabins, wild scenery, trophy trout, tarpon, salmon, bears, eagles, ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For a long time, when I thought of trying my hand at fly fishing, I pictured myself standing in the ankle-deep water of a mellow river with a large rod in ...