A couple Central Pennsylvania sportsmen’s organizations have opened registration for the 2020 editions of their annual winter fly tying classes for beginners and advanced tier alike. Students will ...

FREDON — It took a moose, a turkey, a duck and a chicken to make a mayfly. With a little bit of moose fur, pieces of fowl feathers, a really long piece of thread to hold it all together on a hook, ...

In the beginning of your fly fishing journey, the most common concept of fly fishing is floating a "bug"-like fly on the top of the water to induce a fish to strike. The fly is supposed to represent a ...

One of the few remaining additions to my angling repertoire is to learn the art of fly-tying. For no apparent reason I have avoided tying my own flies, and instead opted for the effortless visit to ...

For many fisherman, winter’s cold means it is time to put away the gear until next season. For nearly a dozen fly fishermen from the Forbes Trail chapter of Trout Unlimited, however, winter is the ...

The Callibaetis mayfly prefers clear, slow-moving water, about 5 to 10 feet deep. Nymphs can be tan, brown or olive. They are slender in body and have delicate tails. Three generations of these tiny ...

The Anato May — the anatomically correct mayfly nymph — was developed by Ken Morrish to approximate the size, shape and color of the mayfly nymph. Tied as a No. 12, in the peacock variant, it is ...