No matter
how diligently we may tie flies through the winter and pack line after line of
our favorite patterns into our fly boxes, inevitably we will find ourselves thigh
deep in some river looking blankly at a piece of broken tippet and our last
"Hot Fly" swimming downstream in the mouth of a big fish. Now before [...]
"A fly by any other name would fish as sweet." These words were penned by playwright and middling rod manufacturer, William Shakespeare, in a play about the forlorn love between the son of a fly fisherman and the daughter of a worm dunker. While this melancholy tale clearly illustrates the heartbreaking consequences of [...]