PERFECT TIES EVERY TIME - Use the Fly Tying Whip Finisher Tool to make perfect, neat flies every time. It's especially awesome for smaller hooks, like size 18 and 20. This tool helps you wrap and knot ...

Stackpole Books launches its new line of how-to books this fall, beginning with Basic Fly Tying: All the Skills and Tools You Need to Get Started, edited by Jon Rounds, with Wayne Luallen consulting ...

Fly tying and football season go together like peanut butter and jelly. For me and many fly tyers in the valley, not much is better than setting up a vise in front of a TV screen with a football game ...

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 ...

Bob Blount, the owner of Wasatch Custom Angling Tools in Albany, will be the guest speaker at the Sept. 10 meeting of the Santiam Flycasters in Salem. Bring your rod for practice casting and ...

FLY FISHING — An introduction to fly tying Level 1 evening course is being offered by pro-tyer Bob Newman on Nov. 14-15 at Silver Bow Fly Shop, 13210 E. Indiana Ave. in Spokane Valley. “Bob is an ...

Editor's note: This article is the third in a three-part series. As flies go, the red-and-white Lefty's deceiverlike pattern I had tied one recent evening sure wouldn't have won any awards. It wasn't ...