Take me to your leader, and chances are we’ll be able to fix some of your flyfishing problems. Leaders are among the basic elements of fly tackle, but the essentials of leader design and performance ...

Last Thursday, we discussed terminal knots for tying fishing line to hooks and lures. For specialty applications, you often need union knots to join different types of line, or to tie a dropper line ...

Middle of winter in the Colorado high country can be a daunting place. Lately, frigid cold has slid down the mountains and settled on the valley. River sections froze. Fly fishing seems like a distant ...

A fisherman's world is all about knots. No matter your method, your bait, lure, presentation and gear is only as good as their weakest link; the knot that tethers the lure -- and thus the fish, to the ...

For the past 30-plus years I have been nymph fishing in the same manner: using a strike indicator, placing my split shot above the nymph(s) and tying the nymphs in line. I have been putting enough ...