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 ...
There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched over their fly-tying vise on a cold winter’s night is about as romantic as ...
WARRENTON -- Forty years ago, on a secret chicken farm in Warrenton, Henry Hoffman started a revolution in fly-fishing. Hoffman, 73, is a meticulous fly-fisherman who spent decades studying the ...
If you want to learn some of the basics of fly tying and casting, here's your chance. Several fly tiers from the Santiam Flycasters will demonstrate tying fly patterns at the group's meeting from 7 to ...
It’s no mystery why I start thinking about fly tying every year around this time. The nights are getting longer and longer and I’ve convinced myself the fishing in December is never very good; ...
As I embark on my fifty-first season of fly-fishing and fly tying, I find the many changes that have altered these pastimes over that timespan to be nothing short of mindboggling. And of course they ...
DULUTH — "I’m a professional stay-at-home dad with a YouTube channel," Gunnar Brammer said when asked to describe his job. "I guess I’m a professional fly tier, too, since I teach fly-tying classes ...
The annual East Idaho Fly Tying Expo is planned at the Mountain America Center in Idaho Falls on Friday, Feb. 14 and Saturday, Feb. 15. This year’s event is happening about a month earlier than normal ...
Taking advantage of the wealth of world-famous, fly-fishing streams in the Cumberland Valley, the Pennsylvania Fly Fishing Museum Association has moved its collection from the banks of the Yellow ...