All serious fly fishers would like to cast better. If you want to move ahead, here is a game plan for remedying problems and improving your casting....MORE

A tool to help you re-calculate lengths and diameters for various freshwater leaders. Fore more on tying your own leaders, see Steven Schweitzer's article Building Custom Leaders in the February 2004 iss of FLY FISHERMAN....MORE

Getting off on the right foot in fly fishing begins with obtaining a well-balanced tackle system and knowing how to assemble it. Putting all the components together can be confusing, bewildering, and down right discouraging without some help or good advice. Read Dave Whitlock's advise on assemebling and disassembling your equipment....MORE

Jason and Gary Borger use QuickTime Video to demonstrate the Improved Clinch Knot, Non-Slip Loop Knot, George Harvey Dry-Fly Knot, and the Nailless Nail Knot....MORE

Learn how to safely release a trout so it lives to be caught another day....MORE

Explore your home waters where the fish are plentiful and the fishing is easy....MORE

Fundamental casting skills and techniques tailored for begining casters....MORE

Easy-to-fish patterns that take big fish in fresh- and saltwater....MORE

Good wading skills are essential to becoming an accomplished angler, no less important than the other fundamentals, presentation and reading the water. Here are some tips and techniques to make you a better wade fisherman....MORE

Learning the skills involved with fly fishing can be a frustrating task. Fortunately, there are schools across the country that can teach you the basics from casting to how to read a trout stream. Here is a brief list of some schools and what they offer....MORE

Learn from Bow River guru Jim McLennan how to lose the water wings and learn to nymph fish without an indicator....MORE

Dana Sturn shows how to build your own sinking-tip system for greater flexibility and line control....MORE

A pontoon boat can become your passport to untouched waters. Learn from pontoon pioneer Dave Scadden how to row and fin your boat for greater safety and more fish....MORE

The double haul is one of the most difficult casts to learn. Lefty Kreh shows how to complete a double haul, and when to do it....MORE

Easy in-the-air mends that will help you catch more fish....MORE

Learn to make curve casts to reach fish that hang near structure in the water....MORE

Jason Borger shows how the roll cast can be the "solution cast" for when obstacles make it near impossible to reach the fish....MORE

Have you ever found a fly line but have no idea what weight or taper it is. Here is an easy way to label your fly lines or spare spools so you'll never have to wonder again....MORE

Engineer Graig Spolek compares the flexibility of 12 major tippet brands. Before you click, can you guess which brand is the stiffest and which is the most supple?...MORE

An quick look at leader composition, strengths, lengths, and diameters and how these factors relate to different fishing conditions....MORE

Learn from author John Mundinger how to make your own reuseable yarn strike indicator. ...MORE

You read in the March 2003 issue of Fly Fisherman why Jim Cramer thinks furled leaders are better than tapered monofilament leaders. Now learn to make a furled leader and decide for yourself which type of leader your prefer....MORE

Pinching the barbs on your hooks is a good idea if you practice catch and release and is mandatory on some regulated waters. Learn from Gene Trump how to turn your nail clippers into a barb pincher....MORE