Most trout fishermen wade streams or rivers and cast a fly. On Lough Corrib, fishermen traditionally drift in a boat and cast with the wind using a four-fly rig on fly line with a 25-foot leader. It ...

This story, “The Fly Is Up,” appeared in the June 1973 issue of Outdoor Life. The Irish aren’t like other Northern Europeans. Their way of doing things is easy and indirect, and it takes a while to ...

Madeline Kelly from Co Down has always been passionate about getting more women hooked on fly fishing. During the Covid pandemic she focused her mind on a lockdown project and from there, her efforts ...

Some years back, a fishing guide acquaintance of mine led pro golfers Tiger Woods and Mark O'Meara out on Oregon's Deschutes River for a day of fly-fishing for steelhead. As my friend recounted this ...

We slowed for a crosswalk just after entering An Daingean, the small port town of Dingle, when we spotted our breakfast spot, Harrington’s. It was a small, order-at-the-counter kind of place with ...

Today I’m attempting the ultimate survival challenge: catching my own dinner because the grocery store was closed… or because ...