You can tie an Adams in gray, brown, yellow, tan, olive, blue, red, olive-red, olive-blue, olive-olive — you name it. You can use the base pattern of an Adams fly to tie a very common fly in the ...

Some fly patterns are popular because they work. Some patterns are popular because everyone else uses them. The Humpy is both. Using deer hair to tie a Humpy is a challenge to a lot of tyers, so ...

This is an easy, visual and fun way to catch bluegills, and a great rig to start kids fishing. For sinking lures and flies you can adjust the float to fish at depths up to several feet.

I always tie all my wet flies without wings because of the small mouth of the bluegill and the almost tentative way of taking the fly they often exhibit.

There are few pleasures in the sport of fishing that can match that of taking trout, bass, bluegill or other fish on a fly of your own creation. On cold winter evenings with a bitter wind rattling ...

TWIN FALLS — While hooks are not as easy to burn as soufflé, learning to tie flies is similar to learning how to cook, local experts say.

Layne Smith is a fly-tying encyclopedia. Mention just about any fly and "Smitty," as he is known to fly-fishers throughout the bay area, can show you how to tie it. Saltwater, freshwater, warm ...