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An exaggerated look at the shape of a weight-forward fly line. (Photo: Rio) When you cast with a spinning or casting rig, you use the rod to throw your lure or baited hook where it needs to go.

Fly rods are versatile tools for angling. Conventional beliefs place fly fishing beyond the realm of aggressive species. However, with the right terminal rigging fly fishers can plow the depths of ...

Driving with fly rods can be a hassle. Keep them in rod tubes and rig up at the water, or try to position them through the middle of the car? Neither solution is ideal.

Come time to rig a fly rod, the entire bag swings in front of you and acts as a workbench. The zipper pockets orient up so tippet, flies, and tools are easily accessible.

Mending: Using your rod tip to adjust floating line upstream so the current doesn’t drag the fly unnaturally. Fish won’t eat a fly that moves unnaturally any more than you’d eat a steak that moved ...

Every Tuesday afternoon, volunteers from Project Healing Waters arrive in the barracks meeting room, set up fly-tying vises, rig fly rods and help soldiers heal. Share story. By .

Driving with fly rods can be a hassle. Keep them in rod tubes and rig up at the water, or try to position them through the middle of the car? Neither solution is ideal. I made the switch to a rod ...