Loop Leech Black, courtesy of The Riffle Fly Shop. The most important quality that you can build into a steelhead fly is confidence. If you believe that the fly you tied on your 10-pound tippet is the ...

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 ...

Joe Meyer caught a brook trout somewhere in South Pass on the first fly he ever tied. It was a black gnat pattern and wasn’t pretty, but it caught an 11-inch fish. “There’s nothing like catching a ...

Gary Galovich, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s lone warm-water fish biologist, is the guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the Linn-Benton Family Fly Fishers on Feb. 24 in Albany.