It’s never too early to prepare your winter fly box. Here are some of our don’t-leave-home-without fly patterns for the coming season: Akin to Charlie Craven’s Two-Bit Hooker, this Dream Cast pattern ...

Decisions, decisions. If you’re a fly angler, you have lots to make. Yes, there are plenty of different lures on tackle-shop shelves, but not nearly as many as there are different fly patterns in well ...

Have you ever noticed hurricane hunters’ flight patterns shown by meteorologists on TV look like random, odd shapes? Those flight patterns may look like boxes or stars, but they serve specific ...

What exactly is added to shrimp, and how can you avoid it at the store? By Melissa Clark Whether farmed or wild caught, the cheaper the shrimp, the more likely it is to have been treated with ...

Saltwater fly fishing sometimes calls for additional efforts to draw fish into casting range — from surrounding waters or up from the depths — and sometimes also make them hungry or excited enough to ...

Prawns and shrimp are often confused, but they are actually different species. Despite their differences, both provide protein, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals of equal value. You may have ...

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BASALT – Mysis shrimp, or “mysis relicta” are one of the reasons we have such big fish in the Fryingpan River. After the last ice age, these relatives of saltwater shrimp became stranded inland and ...

My home waters in east-central Florida’s Mosquito Lagoon can be described as technical on the best days and downright difficult on many others. Our resident redfish and seatrout grow big on the ...

Catching a trout on a fly can be likened to solving a puzzle. Figure out what insect the trout are feeding on during a given 30-minute window, match the size and color of the bug and fish it at the ...