While I fished with the fly rod, my wife angled with a cane pole and a book in the other hand. A fish ripped the rod right out of her grasp and tor...

No. 9. The Spirit Fly. Tied by Syd Glasso circa early 1980s.   In 2018, Charlie Brumwell, Steve Hanson and I were sorting through Ron Grantham's f...

Field and Stream writer Patrick McManus once said that, “There is no greater fan of fly fishing than the worm.” On the spectrum of bait lobbers an...

A large number of tyers prefer this approach; it is quite simple and forms a symmetrical dressing since the hook shank runs through the center of t...

Affixing materials to the sides of the hook shank or fly body is one of the most common techniques for forming legs and is used on a variety of pat...

  Though restricted primarily to leech imitations, this fur-strip technique nonetheless produces a highly effective body. This body style, in whic...