Fish love bugs and small aquatic critters. Anglers like Blake Jackson love to trick them. It’s not just the exhilarating strike and tugs, or landing the big one. It’s not just being away, on the water ...

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 ...

Fly Tying Rendezvous: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Barbagallos Restaurant, 6344 E Molloy Road, East Syracuse. Hosted by Iroquois Chapter of Trout Unlimited & Dette Trout Flies. More than 35 well-known ...

Editor's note: This article is the third in a three-part series. As flies go, the red-and-white Lefty's deceiverlike pattern I had tied one recent evening sure wouldn't have won any awards. It wasn't ...