In an unlikely order of events, Henry Ramsay was tying flies for a couple years before he ever saw anyone fly-fishing. Inspired by the old “American Sportsman” television program, he made as earnest a ...

Nick Pavone began the hobby of fly-tying at age 6. Thanks to the volunteers of the Hokendauqua Chapter of Trout Unlimited, he is returning for a third straight year of “fly-tying school.” This ...

I just finished setting up the card table over the dogs’ kennel box in the back room. It’ll probably stay up at least until the trout opener, because it holds all the fly tying materials to the left ...

If you’ve prowled any fly shops recently, you’ve noticed a growing number of bins holding terrestrial patterns. It’s like they are reproducing and mutating, morphing into strange and garish ...

On July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong was becoming the first man to put bootprints on the moon, I was getting my first introduction to the sport of fly-fishing on an icy mountain stream in Idaho. It ...