Fly rods are not the most intuitive items to pack for travel. Whether you’re packing for multiple days of airline travel to your dream destination or you’re loading up the car for a summer road trip, ...

The opening line in Norman Maclean’s classic, A River Runs Through It, is perhaps the most memorable distillation of the inherent passion behind angling: “In our family, there was no clear line ...

One of the great things about vacationing with a fly rod is that mountain folks like us have the opportunity to fish salt water, but there are extra precautions for maintaining your gear. Salt water ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Fly-fishing is fun because it’s hard. Yes, anyone can buy some spinning gear and hurl PowerBait into a ...

In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.

FLUSHING – It wasn’t so much about what we were going to catch as how we were going to catch them, said Dirk Fischbach, one of the more dedicated fly fishermen I know. That we were going to fish with ...