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Excuse me! Hold on just a second. I couldn't help but notice you coming out of that fly shop with that plastic dish stuffed with flies, and that nice big glass of Kool-Aid. From the look of the red stains on the front of your Simms shirt and the glassy look in your [...]

"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 [...]

A perennial complaint that I have heard from customers over the years is their inability to remember the names of their flies, what invertebrates they represent, and when to use each. We have all at one time or another visited the local fly shop to pick up "must have patterns" only to add them [...]