He opens a silver box about the size of a thin paperback book to reveal several rows of neatly displayed flies. The yellow-and-black imitation bugs are lined up side-by-side. There’s a row of crane ...

WINNECONNE - Wisconsin has a long, rich heritage in fly tying. 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 ...

We all have that one project we really want to do, but we never really seem to find the time to make it happen. Most of the time, you end up finding yourself in a store, buying the exact thing you ...

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 ...

Editor's note: This article is the second in a three-part series. Next time: Starting off with a few good fly patterns. Intimidated. That's a pretty good way to describe how I felt a couple of springs ...