Getting started with fly tying doesn’t have to be daunting, especially with the wealth of fly shops around here, the amazing ...

ASHEVILLE – There's yoga and there's meditation. There's chanting and there's deep-belly breathing. And then there's fly-tying. For those of us trying to get away from the stress of the flashy, ...

It’s no mystery why I start thinking about fly tying every year around this time. The nights are getting longer and longer and I’ve convinced myself the fishing in December is never very good; ...

RENVILLE -- He takes tiny fishing flies that he creates in the comfort of his home in Renville to the big wilderness rivers of Montana and Colorado, and succeeds. Dennis Ulrich of Renville enjoys the ...

James Payne and I covered fly tying last week but neither of us actually went through the process of tying. I will try to cover the basics from a bare ...

WARRENTON -- Forty years ago, on a secret chicken farm in Warrenton, Henry Hoffman started a revolution in fly-fishing. Hoffman, 73, is a meticulous fly-fisherman who spent decades studying the ...

There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched over their fly-tying vise on a cold winter’s night is about as romantic as ...

Fly-fishing and Maine, together, bring a number of things to mind straightaway: the quicksilver flash of brook trout, trailblazing guide “Fly Rod” Crosby, Carrie Stevens’s iconic Gray Ghost fly, ...

Fly tying and football season go together like peanut butter and jelly. For me and many fly tyers in the valley, not much is better than setting up a vise in front of a TV screen with a football game ...

These damsel flies show nymph and adult patterns. The one on the top right is tied with a blue newspaper bag, recycled from the Standard-Examiner delivery one morning. It had been a dark and stormy ...

Tying season is nearly upon us, and glancing through my boxes alerted me to the fact that I have a lot of work to do this winter. I have trouble sleeping when I am getting low on certain patterns, and ...

The 5B Anglers November fly-tying workshop, one of a series of fly-tying workshops offered this winter at Hailey Town Center ...