Far beyond being a nuisance, flies act as mechanical vectors for serious gastrointestinal diseases. This threat is magnified in the city’s densely populated slums and underserved neighbourhoods where ...

In his two-line poem, Ogden Nash wrote that “God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why.” One Sunday a fly was buzzing around our church. I’m sure I was not the only parishioner ...

The “weight” of a fly rod refers to the width of the blank and the weight of the fly line it’s designed to cast. As examples, we have 1- and 2-wt rods for catching small fish in tiny streams, and 12- ...