Fly tying and football season go together like peanut butter and jelly. For me and many fly tyers in the valley, not much is better than setting up a vise in front of a TV screen with a football game ...

When it comes to the materials to tie flies, the options are endless. I started collecting my materials based on the flies I was learning to tie, however, I’ll list some of the “must have” materials ...

Sustainability is the watchword these days. Fall and spring hunting go hand in hand with the fly tyer’s bench, and harvesting meat and materials can coincide. Flies are still created by hand these ...

Fly-tying skills will be demonstrated and taught by some of the region's top fly-tiers in programs and classes offered by sportsmen's organizations and others. Yellow Breeches Anglers, Boiling Springs ...

Several years ago, an old man, who I really didn’t know, died and his wife gave me a grocery bag full of his fly-tying material. And for a long time, it sat untouched in the corner of my office. Over ...

With winter weather comes more time spent indoors. Now is the perfect time to develop new fly tying skills or to hone existing tying prowess and get ready for the approach of spring fly fishing for ...

It's a deep breath shy of 7:35 p.m. on a Thursday at Schroeder's Bar & Grill in St. Paul, and Andy Fiskness has already settled in behind his fly-tying vise in the establishment's dimly lit upstairs ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Fly tying is supposed to be the game angler’s favourite winter pastime. While temperatures drop in the rivers and the ...