Fly-fishing and Maine, together, bring a number of things to mind straightaway: the quicksilver flash of brook trout, trailblazing guide “Fly Rod” Crosby, Carrie Stevens’s iconic Gray Ghost fly, ...

Fly fishing is to fishing what road cycling is to biking, stick-shifting is to driving and using a straight razor is to shaving. It’s a sport that requires precision, poise and patience and grants ...

On a shelf in my home library, alongside the works of Hemingway, Izaak Walton, A.J. McClane and an assortment of other fishing-infused writers, rests “Fly Fishing in Saltwaters” by Lefty Kreh. Close ...

Ask Ed Lombardo about the best striped bass he’s ever caught on a flyrod and you can almost hear the snapshots of moments clattering through his memory. The stories generally all start in the same ...

I wanted to know, first-hand, the difference between the Orvis Helios D and F, so I tested both fly rods side by side in tough, real-world fly fishing conditions. Continued from "Are Orvis Helios D ...

Join The Fish Ranch for a women-only fly fishing trip in Baja, and fish with Mary Grigsby, the woman who made her passion a lifestyle. Saltwater fly fishing, stunning scenery, and a week to remember.

Simply stated, the most consistently good inshore saltwater fly fishing available in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia is for red drum. And with big autumn tides pushed by giant storms like ...

We fly-fishers really look forward to the fall, with its cool weather and big trout. But when it arrives, it races by at breakneck speed, or at least that’s how it seems to me. Once the streams begin ...

While freshwater fishing is often calm and meditative, saltwater fishing can feel like a contact sport. Between wading or boating into choppy surf, baking in the hot sun, and getting doused in salty ...

There is a bit of Ahab in every angler. The mythical fish, elusive piscine adversaries that remain untamed and untackled, swim through the pools of the mind, ever in sight, ever out of reach. As a ...