Fly anglers are figuring out that carp is not a fish to look down your nose at. They are challenging, strong, accessible, and most importantly, flat out fun to catch on a fly rod. You don't have to ...

While hobbling around on a gimp foot that I broke a few weeks ago, I haven’t been fishing as much as I generally do. Don’t feel too bad for me though. I’ve still been getting out there twice a week on ...

RIFLE, Colo. – As many of you already know, fly fishing for carp is easily one of my favorite springtime activities. In recent years, fly fishing for carp has become the hot, new fish in fly fishing ...

The Jurassic Flats Carp Clave is a gathering of carp-curious anglers and experienced fly fishermen in Boardman, Oregon. Anglers come for different reasons. Some have fished for trout all their lives ...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. Let's get something straight we're not fishing for bass, which are so aggressive they'll hit an old doorknob, or trout, which are so dumb they sometimes don't recognize food even ...

As strategy or prediction, the comment rang true. “I could stand around and watch fish all day,” Tom Walther said from the bank of the South Platte River in downtown Denver. And during a ...

TRAVERSE CITY — People used to poke fun at Dave McCool because he likes to fish for carp with a fly rod. Carp, after all, are reviled by many anglers in the United States, thought of as a rough, ...

"Oh look, he's tailing! Three o'clock!" You make the cast. The fly lands softly right in front of the fish's face. Strip. Strip. Strip. Bam! "He's on!" The reel starts singing as the fish takes you ...

In this edition of The Evening Hatch: • Until you've experienced the sight-fishing challenge of targeting feeding carp, or trying to stop a ten-pound specimen on a blistering run with a 6-weight fly ...

About six months ago I shared how one outdoors enthusiast was dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Gary Keisler, a self-employed salesman from Mount Pleasant, was tying flies and spending free ...