Fly line rips the river’s surface like scissors sliding across silk as Michael McLellan propels his two-handed, Scottish-style fly rod across the blue-green waters of the upper White River. As the ...

The popularity of casting tackle on the Texas coast was the subject of Thursday's feature, but space did not permit full coverage. Here is an extended grip on the subject: Most casting rods used today ...

The biggest thing in fly-fishing since nylon leaders, fly lines made with something other than silk, and graphite fly rods is a new casting technique that allows long, precise casts without the usual ...

• Castaway Fly Shop ( castawayflyfishingshop.com),1114 North 4th St. in Coeur d’Alene, has two casual freebie activities to help fly fishers improve: Two-hand Tuesdays: Casting practice with Spey or ...

“If you’ve never tried casting a two-handed fly rod, go to your local fly fishing shop and wiggle a few spey or switch rods and talk to someone who knows how it’s done,” said Pribanic, who opened ...

The last few times I traveled to the South Platte River at Deckers I left my favorite one-hand fly rod at home on purpose. It’s the perfect rod for the midge hatches that sometime occur on sunny ...

Famed fly fishing writer John Gierach once wrote a book called Standing in a River Waving a Stick. Well, fly fishing looks a lot like that. And the stick in question is a fly rod. It’s the rod that ...

The pioneer pluggers on the Texas coast literally embraced the concept with both hands — and the long, confident casts that were made across sparkling green tides continue today. During the 1940s, the ...

About 30 novice and expert fly casters gathered on the banks of the East Fork of the Lewis River on Saturday, Oct.28 for the annual fall fly casting clinic put on by the Clark-Skamania Flyfishers. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monte Burke is a book author and journalist who covers sports. A few autumns ago, I joined my uncle and a few friends in Cape ...

Any angler who happened to see Matt Jordan on the Lester River on Tuesday afternoon might have wondered what he was doing. He appeared to be steelhead fishing. That much was true. But the way the ...