It’s deer season, and that means along with time on the stand, tenderloins on the grill and racks on the wall, as a result of ...

Darwin’s Beetle, Chiasognathus granti, is a tree-dwelling creature that makes its home in Chile and Argentina. Those large jaws? They use them for fighting. They put them under the wings of their ...

I just finished setting up the card table over the dogs’ kennel box in the back room. It’ll probably stay up at least until the trout opener, because it holds all the fly tying materials to the left ...

Dennis Potter peers over his glasses to make sure everyone gets it, the students who have driven from Detroit to take an all day fly-tying class at his home. Suddenly he bellows, "No. No. No!" 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 ...

If you’ve prowled any fly shops recently, you’ve noticed a growing number of bins holding terrestrial patterns. It’s like they are reproducing and mutating, morphing into strange and garish ...

During summer in the Cascades, when trout are looking up, it’s hard to go wrong with an ant pattern. In waters that are close to clear cuts, beetle-killed timber or old burns, the trout are used to ...