Fishing With Flies :: Blog

Over the years I have switched more and more to simple flies. It gives me a thrill to catch fish on a fly that is made with just one or a fe...

Here in southern New England we have been deluged with rain over the past week.  At times like this I find it important to study water flow ...

After my post earlier this week about the leakproof bags I bought from The Waterproof Store a while back, I received an email from Mike in ...

I always have a water-resistant camera with me when fishing, to record the day or perhaps even get a good picture or two. However, most peop...

The Souhegan River on Friday On Friday I took my first outing of the season. (Yes, I did catch trout: two rather blah looking stocked rain...

Rather than discarding an empty tissue box, try using it as a scrap receptacle.  The tissue boxes with the clear plastic covering the hole w...

I got an email from a friend letting me know that the bobbin I was questioning in a post earlier this month is an S&M Bobbin. Now that ...

In the prior two posts I wrote about getting going on fly tying after two years, with a simple clipped-hackle woolly called the Henry's ...

After setting up the tools and materials to tie for the first time in two years (see previous post), it is now time to get re-acquainted wit...

I just checked the notebook I keep with my tying gear, in which I write down the flies I've tied, when I've tied them, and in what s...