There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched over their fly-tying vise on a cold winter’s night is about as romantic as ...

Tying flies has long been one of my favorite winter activities. I derive much pleasure from crafting a supply of the many fly patterns needed to restock my fly boxes for the upcoming trout season.

A recent detour on the final leg of a road trip in early May re-routed me past AA Outfitters on Route 115 in Blakeslee. You might call it fate, luck or divine intervention. I was in the market for a ...

Titusville is known for its space and nature connections, but many folks may not be aware that the city is also home to a world-class manufacturer of fly fishing equipment. Renzetti, run by Andy and ...

The image of his fly-fishing beginnings is as fresh for Bob Swan as it was 36 years ago when he walked into a hardware store in Green Bay. “I met a neat, old guy and there he was sitting at a ...

Dennis Potter peers over his glasses to make sure everyone gets it, the students who have driven from Detroit to take an all day fly-tying class at his home. Suddenly he bellows, "No. No. No!" The ...

CANON CITY, Colo. ” An inmate has turned a fishy idea into a profitable business for Correctional Industries, providing education, job skills and therapy for fellow prisoners. “I used to make cane and ...

It's a deep breath shy of 7:35 p.m. on a Thursday at Schroeder's Bar & Grill in St. Paul, and Andy Fiskness has already settled in behind his fly-tying vise in the establishment's dimly lit upstairs ...

Austin Wilkes dropped two hooks on the meeting room table upstairs at Bass Pro Shops on Thursday evening — one for himself, one for his student. Roles and ages were reversed here. Wilkes, a college ...