Keystone Fly Fisher

I used to be a dedicated one-fly nympher, always fearing I'd spend more time untangling two flies on my leader instead of actually fishing. Last spring, thou...

The traditional way to fish streamers and wet flies, and perhaps most common, is to swing them. This is probably how they were originally meant to be fished ...

A mid-January warm front got me thinking spring. And by “warm front,” I mean that for the first time in almost two weeks, daytime temperatures got above free...

I’ve been fortunate to catch many big fish on a fly rod in my lifetime. Even still, for as many that have found the bottom of my net, just as many have won t...

In a sport that values aesthetic beauty, fly fishermen have no shame when it comes to flies. Take salmon egg patterns, for instance, which are sometimes refe...

Effectively fishing grasshoppers defies every rule you’ve ever heard about fly fishing. No need for those elegant, wistful casts, and nobody cares about the ...

I first laid eyes on beadhead flies in the mid-1990s and life changed forever. I’d read about them in a Fly Fisherman magazine article and soon began tying e...