John Lescroart, author of the best-selling suspense novels with surprise endings, had set the hook on a big steelhead. John's 10-foot fly rod bent down in a huge arc toward the fish, only 10 feet from ...

Walking into a fly shop and perusing the available rods in the rod rack points towards a tremendous number of rods in the 9 foot-category. We are in trout country so it makes sense that the ...

Most of my fly-rods are nine-footers. The shortest I’ve ever used is 6 1/2 feet and it seemed like a toy. So I had to do an audible double-take when Neal Hall talked about doing a casting ...

It couldn't have been more than five minutes after Jason Mattick stepped into the Truckee River in downtown Reno that the line on his 10-foot fly rod went taut. Mattick, 33, read the river just west ...

A couple of anglers fly fish the Provo River on Thursday, March 31, 2011. NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner NO MAGS, NO SALES, ARCHIVE OUT, TV OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT, INTERNET OUT Lately, I’ve been ...