There’s much more to fly fishing than tying on a fly and whipping your line around a pond. Casting, hook setting and reeling all demand a level of finesse that goes beyond what anglers experience when ...
After years of seagrass loss and fishery collapse, Mosquito Lagoon on Florida’s Space Coast is showing real signs of recovery. Bass don’t disappear in winter – they move. Here’s where to find them and ...
When I first started trout fishing, I was given an invaluable piece of advice: start with dry flies. Talk to any trout angler, and they’ll tell you that fishing with subsurface flies simply catches ...
Traditionally fished in the down-and-across presentation common to wet flies, the natural materials of a soft hackle fly impart dramatic and lifelike motion in river currents, resembling mayflies and ...
To the uninitiated, choosing the right type of fly fishing line can be rather daunting. Unlike conventional rods and reels, which rely on the weight of the lure or rig to cast effectively, a fly rod ...
Houston’s Greg Mason says fly fishing is “almost Zen-like." Greg Mason stands at the edge of a parking lot, his truck bed full of lures and poles, ready to fly fish on a patch of grass at Memorial ...
The clear bubble landed with an audible plop on the water’s surface, sending ripples and skittish rainbow trout in all directions. There was nothing subtle about the presentation, not one bit, but ...
First Peoples Buffalo Jump State Park will host a program on snakes at 1 p.m. on Saturday. The program with Dan “The Snake Man” Waitt will focus on snakes and how adults and children can safely enjoy ...