TWIN FALLS — While hooks are not as easy to burn as soufflé, learning to tie flies is similar to learning how to cook, local experts say. It’s five minutes for the basics, a lifetime to master. With ...

Jan. 3—It's not too late to make that New Year's resolution, is it? Good, here it comes: Put down the spinning rod, pick up the fly rod. I've been fishing Roaring River for 40 years, and usually bring ...

As winter creeps in it often means a drop in opportunity for fly fishermen. That depends on where you live, of course, but for many of us, river time becomes vise time. If you’re new to fly tying, ...

Phil Horowitz of Holliston showed local anglers how to make a woolly bugger fly at a demonstration on the art of fly tying Sunday at Sudbury's Wayside Inn. Read on to see how the pros do it. By Kathy ...

With a critical eye, fourth-grader Michael Marks studies the woolly bugger fly he has just finished tying. "This one, I decided, needs a haircut every so often," he declares, only half in jest. Indeed ...

It's simple, easy to tie, kinda rough looking, and will catch fish when nothing else will. The Woolly Bugger is what I call an insurance fly. Catching a fish is never 100% guaranteed, no matter what ...

Time was, mid-February saw the avid fly fisherman gnawing the bars of winter, waiting for April the way a caged lion waits for dinner. If he had nimble fingers and a good sense of color he might ...

The wooly bugger is arguably the best-known fly pattern in the world, often the first fly a beginning fly fisherman ties and fishes. It is easy to tie, easy to fish and remarkably effective for a ...