The angler from McCall was wade fishing a stretch of the Clearwater and swinging flies with a two-handed spey rod. A traditional fly-fishing technique carried over from the Atlantic salmon rivers of ...

Spey anglers, those who prefer two-handed fly rods, are having a good run of late on Idaho's Clearwater River. Kyriacos Panayiotou, of McCall, landed a 41-inch steelhead while swinging flies Oct ...

A Utah angler caught a monster lake trout in McCall last month, Idaho Department of Fish and Game officials announced Monday, and his catch broke the state catch-and-release record and signaled the ...

Hundreds of people gather on the main floor of the Mountain America Center learning how to tie flies or visiting vendors during the East Idaho Fly Tying and Fly Fishing Expo. Taken on March 22, 2024.

IDAHO FALLS — Fishermen and -women of all ages are meeting up for fly tying, fish tales and more at the 29th East Idaho Fly Fishing and Tying Expo this weekend at the Mountain America Center.

Summer fishing in Idaho’s mountain lakes is perfect in July and August. Idaho Fish and Game has tips for fisheries near Idaho City, Stanley.

He also ramrodded the group’s annual North Idaho Fly Fishing Expo for several years. But his fly fishing résumé is much longer and more storied than that. The now-85-year-old picked up a fly ...

The International Fly Fishing Film Festival announced it is coming virtually to all of Idaho and Montana beginning on Feb. 24, featuring 11 films, 6- to 16-minutes in length, from ...

Last week, after 20 years of running the Rainbow Run Fly Shop, at 2244 Grand Ave., McCall loaded the last of the rod stands and bins once filled with tiny mayflies, caddis and streamers into the ...

If you’re like me, and the one fishing outing you took in January was so cold and miserable that you uttered some semblance of, “I’m too old for this …,” stowed your gear and waited for ...

Sinking tips and sinking lines intimidated me for so long. I thought they were and extra hassle, and difficult to fish. I was wrong. Here's why.