Water depth is especially important when fly fishing for bass, and a well-stocked bass box should include flies that fish well at various depths. As a starting point, I’ve picked out 12 of my favorite ...

It looked more like a rock ... patterns and presentations to see how the fish will react. During an outing, I’d switch from a conehead streamer to an old-school soft-hackled wet fly to a popper ...

Fly fishing for ... I caught mostly smallmouth bass and a few largemouths on a variety of different flies. Since a lot of the best bass flies are bulky, wind resistant, and hard to cast, I made a ...

Idaho is chock-full of blue-ribbon waters, and fly anglers descend upon ... I often reach for those patterns first, thinking they’ll be something the bass haven’t seen yet.

Here's how I fished the Niagara River for my best week of smallmouth bass fishing with a fly rod. The Drunk and ... but I hadn't found a pattern that was consitent. The conventional tackle guys ...

My fly, a crayfish pattern Dedeaux tied himself ... This one turns out to be a largemouth bass, which comes on the heels of four Guadalupe bass, Texas’s state fish. We’ve been on the water ...

The Weber Tackle Company of Stevens Point was established in 1888 and for most of the next century was a leading national purveyor of fly patterns and fly fishing equipment. In the 1930s and '40s ...