Even in close quarters, the ability to cast far will serve you well. / photo by Jasper Taback When I started fly fishing for trout, I was told to focus on making short, accurate casts. I think it was ...

Ready to try fly-fishing South Africa? Learn how to cast, dress, and laugh your way through it, even if you don’t catch a ...

You’ve probably heard it before: A great forward cast begins with a great back cast. Here in the Rocky Mountain West, we rarely get the opportunity to back cast when wade fishing, so mastering the ...

Casting a limber fly rod is the only way to get a fish on the line for lots of anglers. Yet there are hold outs who think fly fishing is difficult, expensive and some kind of elite angling sport.

A weight-forward fly line is simply a long line with a thicker, denser front section called the "head." This head, because of its weight, carries the fly and pulls the rest of the long, thinner line, ...

As the summer months approach, dreams of small stream trout fishing resurface. In most parts of the country, alpine streams won’t even be reachable until May or June – unless you’ve got a pair of ...