First Look: The Best New Flies, Gear, and Accessories from IFTD 2022
The International Fly Tackle Dealer Show returned last week to Salt Lake City, Utah, for the first time since 2019. The American Fly Fishing...
F&S Fly of The Week: The Klinkhamer Special
A strike at the surface is one of the most exciting moments in fishing. This is so true in fly-fishing that some anglers won’t...
F&S Fly of The Week: Lady in Waiting (Joro Spider)
As word spread of a new spider colonizing the states of the southeastern seaboard, it seemed only a matter of time before someone tied...
How to Fish 6 Must-Have Soft Hackle Flies
If you find yourself stumped by picky trout with any regularity, there’s a time-tested family of patterns that you’re probably not using enough. Enter...
Video: How to Preserve a Squirrel Pelt For Fly Tying
Squirrels might be the ultimate critter. They are fun to hunt, taste amazing, and their fur is extremely useful. Squirrel tails and pelts in...
The Season: Louisiana Redfish Rodeo
“The Season” is a new online column from F&S editor-at-large T. Edward Nickens. You can also follow Nickens’s adventures on Instagram @enickens. And you can read about his adventures in...
F&S Fly of the Week: Takayama Kebari
What happens when you tie the hackle on a wet fly backward—that is, leaning out over the eye of the hook, rather than leaning...
F&S Fly of The Week: Meyer’s Mini Leech
In more than 30 years of fly-fishing for trout, I’ve never seen a leech. Maybe I don’t fish where leeches live, although that seems...
The Ultimate Sight-Fishing Adventure: How to Catch Tailing Redfish During Flood Tides
Every spring, anglers flock to salt marshes in the South in pursuit of redfish. The popular game fish feast on fiddler crabs during the...
F&S Fly of The Week: The Clouser Deep Minnow
We’ve begun hearing welcome reports of striped bass being caught in coastal rivers in the Northeast. The first fly that many striper addicts will...
