Plus, you’ll need tools to tie with, a vise, scissors, bobbin, and more, which will easily cost $100 or more. In addition to the material and tool cost, for many there are the instructional costs.

We are out here on the lower Niagara River in the month of December, and today we're looking for trout. We're going to be ...

Forbes Trail Trout Unlimited talks flies, fishing during weekly tying circle Dan Speicher | Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020 12:01 a.m.

That was the moment I resolved to learn how to tie my own damn flies. For my first attempt, I chose the black killer bugger —a grublike yarn body with a fluffy marabou-feather tail.

The next day, those flies caught trout as fast as he could cast with his fly rod. Berkley’s fishing buddies were watching his success and wanted to know all about those simple but deadly new flies.

You have to be prepared to move things on a molecular level," is one of those catch phrases that Bill Logan, a New Jersey based fine artist and fly tier, likes to quote. Those words might also ...

Since then, his love for fishing became an art. "The trout seem to like the color green," said Davis recently, as he carefully tied a new fly. "I started in 1975.

Mary Dette Clark ties a fishing fly in her Greenlawn home on March 26, 2015. Clark recently handed the reins of her business making and selling flies -- as fly-fishing lures are known -- to ...

“We’ve got more flies than they’ve got pies,” McGarry boomed at the fair on Monday in front of the 45 boxed displays of flies sent from fishing clubs around Maine. “He’s a great promoter.