Wet Fly Fishing - Wet fly fishing is a technique that uses weights to sink the fly to the bottom of a body of water. Considering that trout are generally bottom feeding fish, especially when there no ...

Do you realize that wet fly fishing is the original method of fly fishing? It dates back to medieval times and wasn't supplanted by dry fly fishing until the 1850s. Nymph fishing didn't come along ...

WET fly, dry fly, nymph of yesteryears and now bugs! A few years ago I recall watching a few episodes of Upstairs Downstairs, a delightful television series which was devoid of the blood, murder and ...

Tired of the same old dead drift? Got eyestrain from watching a tuft of yarn bouncing through the waves? Too much lead weight got you down? Then we’ve got just the deal for you. It’s called fishing ...

Hearing Dave Allbaugh of Wet Fly Waterguides speak at a recent Maryland Trout Unlimited meeting on wet fly fishing on the Gunpowder, I knew I had to return to my “first love,” wet fly/soft hackle ...

To help pass a few long winter evenings in the past couple of months, I read once again several classic fly-fishing books that had greatly influenced me during my early years. Absorbing the familiar ...

"Spring," Robin Williams once said, "is nature's way of saying ‘Let's party!'" To the nation's 6 million fly fishermen, spring is nature's way of saying, "Get on the river!" In the popular imagination ...

When the current fly-fishing boom started in America several decades ago, advances in the technology of rods and lines, development of synthetic fly-tying materials and sophisticated new fly patterns, ...

In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.