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.

Having started fly-fishing and fly tying back in 1964, I enjoy talking shop ... Maybe the most amazing transformation in fly-tying materials has been the development of dry-fly hackle.

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

Henry Hoffman works on a fly at his home in Warrenton. "I kind of got interested at just the right time," he says, and Hoffman Hackles became a big name at sporting goods stores in the 1970s.

In a sense, learning how to fish a soft hackle fly is mostly a matter of simply tying one onto your leader. All that said, the utility of the soft hackled fly is still somehow often overlooked.

Sports; Outdoors; This TV show will raise your hackles. Sells, Hyatt teach fly tying on Public TV. Sun., April 19, 2009 Carolyn Sells of Spokane and LeRoy Hyatt of Lewiston on set of Fly Tying ...

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.

One of the most important ingredients in a trout fly (after the hook) is hackle feathers, and that’s why a recent trend in young women’s fashion is causing alarm. It seems teenage girls have ...

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 ...

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 ...