In this week's "How to Tie" feature, Tiesflies shows us how to tie an integral part of many dry flies, a parachute post.

The first time I went fly fishing, my buddy summed up the sport in five words: “hurling money into the river.” That definitely felt like the case as I proceeded to lose $10 worth of store-bought flies ...

A landlocked salmon caught on a Golden Retriever on the Rapid River during Maine’s spring fishing season. Credit: Marc McDonald The BDN outdoors section brings readers into the woods, waters and wild ...

Tie and fish the Partridge and Orange soft-hackle for fall trout: sparse hackle, orange silk bodies, sizing for October caddis and BWOs, plus the wet-fly swing.

Walk through the brush that grows along any stream this time of year and you will see a multitude of grasshoppers leaping away from your strides. This is the season of the hopper. By now they have ...

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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 ...