Here's what happens when luck, foresight, and skill come together when an angler is out fly fishing for Striped Bass. Sam Alsop made history on June 28th, 2024, by catching an 8-pound tautog on a fly ...

A week of fishing with conventional tackle anglers taught me some things that led to more success with a fly rod. The Niagara River is a great fishery full of smallmouth bass, Great Lakes steelhead, ...

Clay Henry is the Features Editor for the WholeHogSports Network. He created Hawgs Illustrated magazine in 1992 and was the ...

There are a lot of numbers in fly fishing, and some of the numbering may not make sense to the uninitiated—or to the initiated, for that matter. A higher number means a smaller hook, yet the opposite ...

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.

I have fly fished for various warm-water fish. I have cast flies for bass, catfish, panfish, and carp. The one species I had not cast my fly toward, until now, was a gar. I had heard about it. But ...

Step back in time ten years or so and fly fishing for carp was exploding. It became so popular that it served as fodder for ...

Flyfishing for trout isn’t a complicated, difficult sport. A close look reveals that a successful flyfisherman has mastered several basic abilities: casting smoothly and accurately, knowing how to ...

Owning 20 different rod and reel setups, each for a specific technique, is nice, but far from necessary. Nearly all bass ...

Pound for pound, redfish are among the most powerful fish in the world. Anglers regularly use the strongest of gear to muscle them in fast, but Todd Masson and Capt. Ty Hibbs set out to the marshes of ...

When it comes to fly fishing in Pennsylvania, there are many techniques and patterns that work well to catch trout, bass and ...