When a salmon smacks the lure he’s likely to hook himself and announce his presence with a long, loud zzzzzzz of the reel, and to hear that signal is one of the greatest thrills this kind of fishing ...

13-pound king using a fly selected and tied by brother Tim, the team’s master angler. Nelson Rudiak, of Rome, had a great day drifting the Salmon River with Joe’s Outdoor and Fishing Adventures.

Canada’s elite fly-fishers are using global trips and school curriculums to teach new generations about this lifelong passion ...

Besides rods, reels, and flies, fly fishing waders are arguably the most ... trout in the summer heat, and migrating salmon in the fall. Not to mention the muddy mess of runoff season.

Conditions for an early beginning to the summer’s dry fly fishing are here. Due to the heat in early June, flows on rivers ...

Fly fishing waders can be one of the most daunting ... I picked these up for a trip to the Salmon River, and they handled ...

The Longest Silence is a collection of 33 essays that cover an impressive breadth of fly fishing experience – from Montana trout and Pacific salmon fishing to Key West bonefish, tarpon and permit.

It’s still artful, but unlike a carefully placed dry fly offered to a holding or feeding trout, fishing for cruising salmon in 15 feet of saltwater necessitates getting the fly out there ...

This is the second time USA TODAY readers have honored the Au Sable for its fly fishing. In 2024's USA TODAY's 10BEST Readers ...

It's sometimes hard to comprehend that it was mid-June 2016, two weeks into the salmon fishing season, when 28-year-old Jessica Duffney purchased her first fishing licence, fly rod and a pair of ...