Do you realize that wet fly fishing is the original method of fly fishing? It dates back to medieval times and wasn't supplanted by dry fly fishing until the 1850s. Nymph fishing didn't come along ...

One of the best parts of summer fly fishing is being able to leave your waders at home. Walking through a trout stream unencumbered by chest waders is a game-changer – you realize that you’re not ...

Hearing Dave Allbaugh of Wet Fly Waterguides speak at a recent Maryland Trout Unlimited meeting on wet fly fishing on the Gunpowder, I knew I had to return to my “first love,” wet fly/soft hackle ...

Wet Fly Fishing - Wet fly fishing is a technique that uses weights to sink the fly to the bottom of a body of water. Considering that trout are generally bottom feeding fish, especially when there no ...

To help pass a few long winter evenings in the past couple of months, I read once again several classic fly-fishing books that had greatly influenced me during my early years. Absorbing the familiar ...

A close second would be, “What (or how many) fly patterns do I need to have to be successful most of the time? Those are both valid queries, and ones which reflect the quintessence of fly-fishing. On ...

Fly fishing during the ancient times has little resemblance to what fly anglers are doing today. Long gone are the silk fishing lines and horsehair leaders, replaced by engineered fly lines designed ...

Dry-fly fishing didn't become popular until near the end of the 19th century, says Gray. And when it did, a sort of class snobbishness grew around the sport of fly-fishing. Some well-heeled anglers, ...