Learning to fly fish is a deeply rewarding way to spend time on the water. ... Weights 7-9 are for large fish, including chum salmon, northern pike or big lake trout.

One salmon turns a complete cartwheel, another flings itself in a four-foot sidesnap, and still another touches nose to tail three times in mid-air. In each case, there’s enough slack line hanging ...

Keep in mind that many anglers use very long, two-hand fly rods for fish like these, in line weights that would be closer to 12 if the rod were meant for single-hand use. Steelhead and salmon will ...

Canada’s elite fly-fishers are using global trips and school curriculums to teach new generations about this lifelong passion ...

Fly fishing waders can be one of the most daunting purchases for any angler. ... I picked these up for a trip to the Salmon ...

The Longest Silence is a collection of 33 essays that cover an impressive breadth of fly fishing experience – from Montana trout and Pacific salmon fishing to Key West bonefish, tarpon and permit.

Conditions for an early beginning to the summer’s dry fly fishing are here. Due to the heat in early June, flows on rivers ...

This is the second time USA TODAY readers have honored the Au Sable for its fly fishing. In 2024's USA TODAY's 10BEST Readers’ Choice Awards, the Au Sable River also was No. 1 in the the U.S.

Fly fishing for salmon in the saltwater might reduce the opportunity to get quick limits, but there’s nothing like it. (Photo by Jeff Lund) I Went to the Woods: Silvers on the fly.

Charter fishing crews in California harbors are preparing for recreational salmon fishing to reopen after a two-year shutdown ...

In 1980, when Weixlmann went to school in Pittsburgh, his dad took him to where he used to fish for salmon and steelhead. “Back then they were using fly rods with mono (monofilament) on it with ...