A lot of angers get overwhelmed when searching for the best bass flies. They see the staggering number of soft plastics, jigs, and other baits used by the conventional crowd and think they have to ...

If you haven’t tried chasing smallmouth bass with a fly rod, you’re in for a treat. These fish are the perfect mix of power ...

Any angler who claims he or she doesn’t love a good surface take is a liar. It doesn’t matter if it’s a trout rising to sip a caddis fly or a striper boiling on a Spook in the back of a wave, topwater ...

I was lying flat on my belly in the long grass. I was fresh out of school and, rambling through the open veld, stumbled upon a deep, water-filled quarry in the middle of nowhere. From a high bank, I ...

Surf fishing and flyfishing are both challenging. It might be easy to assume, then, that combining the two would present the ultimate angling test. But in reality, it’s a lot less daunting than many ...

DETROIT — Anyone who doesn't like doing this can't claim to be a real fisherman. We're using a three-weight fly rod and an ultralight spinning rod to cast a glass minnow fly and a small white bucktail ...

, fast-shooting heads, fast-drying UV resin, and even pre-made wings, legs, and tails that let you whip up flies faster than ever. This might be why spun-hair bass bugs aren’t commonplace in fly boxes ...

Part 1 of 3 of a review of Flymen Fishing Company's Bass Popper fly tying materials kit.