Fly fishing isn't only about fly fishing. It's a much broader net that encompasses literature, painting, lifestyle, and the always popular fly tying.

The largest wholesale fishing fly company in the U.S. is Umpqua Feather Merchants. In a 2002 trade survey, Montana Fly Co. was vying with two other companies for second place, according to Oswald.

Outside magazine, February 1996 Fly Fishing: Hooked on Fly Tying By Donovan Webster For truly hardened fly fishermen, winter is interminable. Confronted by streams stopped with ice and snow–and ...

A.K. Best inspects a dragonfly fishing fly as he sits for a portrait last month at the workbench where he spent 40-plus years tying flies 2024, in Boulder. Best is a legend in the fly fishing ...