Two friends from the University of Montana, “Weed” and “Snake,” have joined me by the woodstove in a small cabin in the Beaverhead Mountains of Southwest Montana. That cabin …

For fly-fishing anglers, fly rods are part of the equipment we use for a day of fishing. In general, fly rods are inorganic objects, with the most recent versions made from graphite, boron and most …

Although anglers have been fishing with thousands of different flies, both wet and dry, for many, many years, fly fishing as we know it is a product of merry old England. Around the turn of the …