In 1924, Carrie Stevens stepped into the Upper Dam Pool on Maine’s Rapid River with a new smelt imitation tied to her line. A short time later, a 6-pound, 13-ounce brook trout lay on the bank before ...

The manager of one of the teams involved has labelled the incident as a "disgrace" THE FA have released a statement following the abandonment of an FA Cup Second Qualifying Round clash on Saturday.

The Football Association (FA) has launched an investigation into alleged racial abuse which resulted in an FA Cup match being abandoned on Saturday. The second-qualifying-round tie between National ...

As most anglers know, there’s losing fish, there’s losing fish and then there’s LOSING fish — each category defined by the relative cause or blame (i.e., fish acrobatics, angler ineptitude and the ...

Knowing the stages of development in a bug’s life is a critical component to successful fly fishing. Deciphering the hatch on a river is a challenging game. Larva, pupa or adult stages have been ...

The author says emerger flies like this bead-headed soft hackle fly can save an otherwise slow day on the trout stream. (Photo by Oak Duke) Thankfully, between some of the storied Mayfly events that ...

Five months ago, I was asked to try out and then write about a pair of Caddis Readers – a high-end, a little on the pricey side, reading glasses. The pitch was that when fly anglers tie flies, tie ...

April means many things to fly fishers. For most, it rings in the fair-weather fishing season, as the first waves of blue winged olives and caddis arrive with those April showers. If you’ve ever ...

Caddisflies provide a spring and summer target for all species from trout to panfish, and there are tons of great imitators out there. When these insects are flitting about the surface and getting ...

I like to fish dry flies. It’s not that I dislike nymph fishing, but there’s something truly special about watching a trout rise to your fly. There are, however, times when fishing dry flies simply ...

If there’s anything more rewarding than catching a fish on a fly tied with your own two hands, it is doing so with fly tying material salvaged from game animals you’ve harvested afield. In ...