If there's a best month to learn how to fly fish, April is it. Hard-fighting white bass are starting their move into the White and War Eagle tributaries at Beaver Lake and up the Kings River on Table ...

Here's what happens when luck, foresight, and skill come together when an angler is out fly fishing for Striped Bass. Sam Alsop made history on June 28th, 2024, by catching an 8-pound tautog on a fly ...

Going after heavyweight striped bass at Beaver Lake is a challenge for any angler. The ultimate test is catching these finned torpedoes with a fly rod. A striper weighing in the range of 20 pounds is ...

Bass aren’t usually thought of as fly-rod fish. There’s an entry somewhere in the unwritten rulebook of fly fishing that says a fish has to be graceful or elegant to earn that designation, and those ...

A good fly reel will last a lifetime and help bring countless fish to hand. Fly fishing at its most basic level is just another technique for catching fish. On a deeper level, it’s both a blood sport ...

They are not subtle, these bruising brawlers. Some fish have the reputation of being almost refined. Angling literature, for example, mythologizes brown trout for the way they selectively and daintily ...

“The Guadalupe bass? Well, that’s my childhood friend,” says our guide, Alex Herrera, who’s just nineteen years old and grew up fly fishing in the rivers of the Texas Hill Country. We’re near the tiny ...

Surface flies made of tightly-spun deer belly hair have been catching bass for more than a century. If your grandpa used the long rod at the lake in the 1940s, 50s, or 60s, there’s a good chance he ...