If you find yourself stumped by picky trout with any regularity, it’s probably time for you to learn how to fish a soft hackle fly. These time-tested patterns are characterized by their wispy, “buggy” ...

Have you ever wished there was an easy way to get into fly tying and fly fishing for trout? There is: fishing soft hackle flies. Soft hackle flies are simple wet flies, consisting at their most basic ...

The winter issue of Trout Unlimited’s “Trout” magazine inspired me to want to return this spring to my fly fishing roots — swinging a type of wet flies known as “soft hackles.” Soft hackles are simple ...

Fly tying classes, 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Superior Fly Angler, 310 Belknap St., Superior. Topic: Tying soft hackle/wet flies. Cost: $10, includes all supplies and materials. Space is limited; ...

Successful fly fishing is largely dependent on using the right pattern. Lists of “go-to” flies exist in many publications and online resources, and every seasoned angler has those few patterns they ...

If there’s anything more rewarding than catching a fish on a fly tied with your own two hands, it is doing so with fly tying material salvaged from game animals you’ve harvested afield. In ...

As I embark on my fifty-first season of fly-fishing and fly tying, I find the many changes that have altered these pastimes over that timespan to be nothing short of mindboggling. And of course they ...

Local fly tyer Robert Cox will be demonstrating how to make soft hackle flies from noon until 2 p.m. on Saturday at East Rosebud Fly and Tackle. Cox will be tying several of his proven and favorite ...

"She was a nun, and made her own flies, rods, lines, the whole nine yards," says Gray. "And those flies actually still work today." The classic wet flies that were commonly used in England, Scotland, ...

Although this hasn t been much of a winter for snow and cold, it has been wintry enough to keep me inside most of the time. That has left me with a little too much time on my hands and a need for ...