Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fly tying is supposed to be the game angler’s favourite winter pastime. While temperatures drop in the rivers and the ...

The recent Irish Fly Fair in Galway saw the launch of the latest encyclopaedic work on classic salmon flies by Waterville angling historian, Martin Lanigan-O’Keeffe. The historian, whose previous book ...

BAR NUNN - Clearly you don't need a fully dressed Atlantic salmon fly to catch a fish with a brain the size of a peanut any more than you need a vintage Bentley Continental to buzz down to the corner ...