Fish love bugs and small aquatic critters. Anglers like Blake Jackson love to trick them. It’s not just the exhilarating strike and tugs, or landing the big one. It’s not just being away, on the water ...

Fly Tying Rendezvous: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Barbagallos Restaurant, 6344 E Molloy Road, East Syracuse. Hosted by Iroquois Chapter of Trout Unlimited & Dette Trout Flies. More than 35 well-known ...

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 ...

TRAVERSE CITY — People used to poke fun at Dave McCool because he likes to fish for carp with a fly rod. Carp, after all, are reviled by many anglers in the United States, thought of as a rough, ...