If you haven’t tried chasing smallmouth bass with a fly rod, you’re in for a treat. These fish are the perfect mix of power and attitude, and they’ll give you a fight you won’t forget. While ...

A lot of angers get overwhelmed when searching for the best bass flies. They see the staggering number of soft plastics, jigs, and other baits used by the conventional crowd and think they have to ...

Once you feel the tug of a bass on a fly rod, you may question whether or not to go back to fly fishing trout. The bass's aggressive takes and hard-fighting attitude make them a fun and worthy ...

They are not subtle, these bruising brawlers. Some fish have the reputation of being almost refined. Angling literature, for example, mythologizes brown trout for the way they selectively and daintily ...

Smallmouth bass are generalists and curious by nature, regularly taking advantage of their diverse feeding strategies. Any given day a smallmouth may gaze at the surface and go for a conventional/fly ...

Decisions, decisions. If you’re a fly angler, you have lots to make. Yes, there are plenty of different lures on tackle-shop shelves, but not nearly as many as there are different fly patterns in well ...

Standing in the white sandy flats of Cape Cod, in water up to my waist. Looking out at the horizon, it could have been the ...

, fast-shooting heads, fast-drying UV resin, and even pre-made wings, legs, and tails that let you whip up flies faster than ever. This might be why spun-hair bass bugs aren’t commonplace in fly boxes ...

Fall in southwest Idaho is a beautiful time. Crisp mornings that give way to warm afternoons. Harvest festivals and Halloween fun for the kids. Pumpkin spice everything. And of course, football season ...