Anglers tend to put a lot of stock in selecting the right dry fly to match a hatch. But, the truth is, the perfect fly won’t do you a whole lot of good if you don’t know how to present it. When it ...

No place I'd rather be than standing in a river hooked into a big fish. / photo by Ken Baldwin You want to learn how to fly fish, or maybe you are just a little bit curious about what fly fishing is.

In theory, fly-fishing is a simple sport: Pick a body of water, choose a fly-fishing rod, select your “fly” (or bait), tie a secure knot, cast your line and, hopefully, land a fish on the other end.

There’s much more to fly fishing than tying on a fly and whipping your line around a pond. Casting, hook setting and reeling all demand a level of finesse that goes beyond what anglers experience when ...

Ask a fly fisher how they learned the skill, and about one time in 10, they'll tell you they were on the stream one day and just figured something out. The rest of the time they know it because they ...

GRAND MARAIS — It was easy to see why Shawn Perich has been an angler for more than 50 years. Beneath a clear blue sky, a small lake near the Gunflint Trail was placid. A small river flowed softly ...

Tarpon are found throughout the Gulf Coast and into the southeast Atlantic Ocean, with Florida being the hotspot. Its warm tropical waters and endless inshore habitats foster the largest tarpon ...

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Shawn Perich holds a brook trout he caught in a creek off of the Gunflint Trail outside of Grand Marais, Minn. on June 25.