You will have an opportunity to flail and, with practice, prevail on Aug. 9 when the Santiam Flycasters holds its annual Fly Casting Clinic. There is no charge to ...

They were casting on a soccer pitch that was covered in clover, honing their skills to be used on future trips to the Brule for trout, or the Cloquet for smallmouth bass or maybe a little Douglas ...

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

Continued from Part 1: Fly Fishing Lessons: What Is Presentation and How It Helps You Catch More Fish? If you want to consistently catch fish, you have to understand what "good presentation" means in ...

"'Presentation is everything.' No wiser words were told to me early in my fly fishing learning curve. It's a fact, the fly angler who is skilled in the presentation of his fly will catch more fish." ...

Fly fishing at its most basic level is just another technique for catching fish. On a deeper level, it’s both a blood sport and an art form that is partly based around making the act of fishing more ...

Free fly fishing casting lessons at Cutthroat Anglers in Silverthorne will be held every Monday and Wednesday nights at 6 p.m. from now through Labor Day. Call (970) 262-2878 to RSVP.

In his story “The Angler,” author Washington Irving found inspiration from an old fisherman, writing, “There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a gentleness of spirit and a pure ...

If you want to learn some of the basics of fly tying and casting, here's your chance. Several fly tiers from the Santiam Flycasters will demonstrate tying fly patterns at the group's meeting from 7 to ...