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.

GRAND MARAIS — It was easy to see why Shawn Perich has been an angler for more than 50 years. Beneath a clear blue sky, a small lake near the Gunflint Trail was placid. A small river flowed softly ...

Joshua Ryan puts the finishing touches on a wooly bugger fly during last weekend’s Trout Unlimited youth camp. Brandon Materniak holds a brook trout caught in Bowman’s Creek. It was Materniak’s first ...

Shawn Perich holds a brook trout he caught in a creek off of the Gunflint Trail outside of Grand Marais, Minn. on June 25.

The fish was holding maybe 40 feet upstream, rising every 30 seconds to feed. When small fish eat flies that way, they make little splashes as they break the surface. Big fish push the water in slow, ...

You want to learn how to fly fish, or maybe you are just a little bit curious about what fly fishing is. You want to see if it's a fit but are unsure where to start. The internet is a good beginning, ...

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Ask a fly fisher how they learned the skill, and about one time in 10, they'll tell you they were on the stream one day and just figured something out. The rest of the time they know it because they ...

Fly fishing for any kind of fish holds a mystique and some perplexity for the modern-day angler. In media-production lore, bass fishing dominates the book and video titles today, but since the ...