For devoted fly fishers, winter has traditionally been a time of quiet meditation at the fly-tying bench. But this year, a shortage of premium fly-tying feathers has left both hobbyist ...

You don’t need to change your setup to try fishing soft hackles. If you are mainly into fishing dry flies, you would need to change very little except for the fly to fish a soft hackle. Your ...

Fly fishing for trout on a stream or river could be addictive. The ability of an angler to try and present an imitation fly ...

Soft hackles have been catching fish since the invention of fly fishing. Here's how to fish a soft hackle fly, plus 6 killer patterns.

You don’t need to change your setup to try fishing soft hackles. If you are mainly into fishing dry flies, you would need to change very little except for the fly to fish a soft hackle. Your ...

His chickens were the first bred specifically for fly-fishing hackles. To supplement his fly-tying work, Hoffman had intended on raising chickens for eggs as his parents had.

Good quality hooks are now available in a complete range of styles and sizes. Maybe the most amazing transformation in fly-tying materials has been the development of dry-fly hackle.

In each episode, they demonstrate tying three or four fly patterns, including dry and wet flies, droppers and steelhead offerings.

A former professor of his from CSU owned Colorado Quality Hackles, and Whiting, though not a fisherman himself, liked the idea of raising birds for their feathers to be used for fly-tying.

MISSOULA — For devoted fly fishers, winter has traditionally been a time of quiet meditation at the fly-tying bench. But this year, a shortage of premium fly-tying feathers has left both ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — For devoted fly fishers, winter has traditionally been a time of quiet meditation at the fly-tying bench. But this year, a shortage of premium fly-tying feathers has left both ...