There you have it three useful, easy-to-tie fly patterns to help you get started. But once you begin tying flies and actually catch a few fish on your own patterns someth ...

In addition to tools, fly-tying kits include the materials needed to tie the most basic fly patterns. Like any hobby kit, the more you spend, the more material you get.

This hopper fly tie resembles the plentiful and attractive-to-fish grasshopper.

You can use the base pattern of an Adams fly to tie a very common fly in the spring called the Blue-Winged Olive, which attracts lots of fish. You can even give these patterns a little parachute, a ...

On the dry-fly side of things, Leonard Halladay’s Adams can be utilized for almost any mayfly hatch from blue-wing olives to green drakes. Bill Fitzsimmons used to joke about the “Adams hatch” here in ...

I just finished setting up the card table over the dogs’ kennel box in the back room. It’ll probably stay up at least until the trout opener, because it holds all the fly tying materials to ...

Fly fishermen consider fly fishing to be interactive art, but it is really impressionistic art painted on a living canvas.

Whether you tie or buy your flies, the best way to learn about what nymph patterns to have in your fly boxes is to sample the insect life in the streams you fish most often.

The event has become a staple of the local fly-tying community, offering budding artists an opportunity to learn how to tie various patterns from the masters as well as buy their flies for a good ...

When late summer sets in and the fly fishing gets tough, use these tried-and-true patterns to put more fish in your net.