When it comes to selecting the right fly pattern to use, fly-fishermen generally follow the guideline to “match the hatch.” Simply, this means to present the fish you are after with a bait choice that ...

The great bait debate is no joke. Ask Tom Loe. “Years of observing the average bait chucker ... have left me tainted and hardened to the point where my humor on this subject may be too dark for ...

A Concord Township couple recently opened Drifters Fly and Bait Shop in an ideal downtown Painesville location, just walking distance to the Grand River. Bruce Norfolk and Latanya Coston were pleased ...

In the beginning, I had a classic Zebco 202 spin-cast combo, and it was good. At least, good enough for 5-year-old me. But I've owned many types of fishing rods since I was a freckle-faced boy who ...

ORCHARD | It was a new angle Randy Heitz of Charles City and Mark Messer of Mason City sought when they signed up for the Learn to Fly Fish class though North Iowa Area Community College. The two said ...

I just wrapped up a week of fly fishing the lower Niagara River alongside the town of Lewiston, NY. My main target species was smallmouth bass, but because of the nature of the Niagara fishery, you ...

There are three kinds of trout in this country — native, wild, and stocked. Native trout are the ones that have been here for thousands of years, such as brook trout in the mountains of the Northeast ...

This photo was taken at dawn at Echo Lake in Franconia. Alexis Labour works on her fly-fishing casting along the Ottauquechee River on May 7, 2024, in Quechee, Vt. New Hampshire is considering changes ...

NEAR ALLISONIA, Va. (WFXR) — Fly fishing has often been compared to ballet. It requires grace. It requires precision. It requires rhythm. It requires timing. And, if all the conditions are met, it can ...