Customizing the Universal Fly It can float for days, it can sink several ways, it catches big fish and small, The woolly bugger can do it...

Originally Published in Coastal Angler Magazine, 2018 Imagine your Christmas feast; although they are small and delicate, the candle...

Christmas Gift Ideas Christmas is coming again, and it brings our tradition of gift giving. As outdoor enthusiast who wish to promote...

Because of the aggressive strikes it provokes, the Sneaky Pete ranks as one of my favorite flies. I can’t start a day on a warm body of...

Let’s Get Moving You are ready to add distance to your fly cast once you can easily pick up and lay down thirty feet of fly line and...

What Can be Done It is a sad fact of the angling life that any number of events might keep you from fishing. In September, lightning...

As if I were up to my knees in the celebratory nature of this new book, my enthusiasm for fly fishing flowed as I opened my fresh copy of...

Two points of the Fly Cast As the fishing buddies walked out of the Coffee, Bait -n- Beer convenience store, Charles held his coffee out...

A Different Thought “It’s in the wrist.” “Just like answering a phone.” “Hammer a nail.” And so on and so forth. As a new fly angler, you...

In our angling lives we’ve taken joy in the glories of pure, untouched waters. We love getting away from civilization to one degree or...

Bits of the Fantasy We Left Do we know that our memories will fade? Do we know at a subconscious level that despite the effort to create...

What does a nonagenarian do after setting standards of excellence in several careers? In the case of fishing hero Lefty Kreh, the answer...

Fly casters have certain advantages over spin and bait casting anglers. Because of the false cast technique, one advantage is their...