Few flies are as ubiquitously potent as the Clouser Minnow. Invented by legendary fly angler Bob Clouser in the late 1980s, the pattern quickly proved it had far more uses than originally intended.

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 ...

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 ...

Joe Nicklo doesn’t want to be known as the guy who killed the sacred tradition of fly-tying. But maybe he wouldn’t mind being known as the guy who reinvented it. Or better still, the guy who ...

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 ...