The Jurassic Flats Carp Clave is a gathering of carp-curious anglers and experienced fly fishermen in Boardman, Oregon. Anglers come for different reasons. Some have fished for trout all their lives ...

As strategy or prediction, the comment rang true. “I could stand around and watch fish all day,” Tom Walther said from the bank of the South Platte River in downtown Denver. And during a ...

Dressed in a short-sleeved shirt, long pants and sneakers, angler Dan Morgan carefully threaded his line through the eyelets of his fly rod in a parking lot next to the Old Erie Canal, just outside of ...

The common carp widely is considered to be a "junk fish" in the U.S. even though they were brought here initially for their food value. The carp is pound-for-pound one of the larger and harder fish to ...

Chuck Atkins stood waist-deep in chilly water with a fly rod in hand as a predicament spread out before him–dozens of carp feeding vigorously near the Chicago shore of Lake Michigan. For a purist fly ...

In this edition of The Evening Hatch: • Until you've experienced the sight-fishing challenge of targeting feeding carp, or trying to stop a ten-pound specimen on a blistering run with a 6-weight fly ...

"Oh look, he's tailing! Three o'clock!" You make the cast. The fly lands softly right in front of the fish's face. Strip. Strip. Strip. Bam! "He's on!" The reel starts singing as the fish takes you ...

Don't turn up your nose at carp, Chris Hunt tells fly fishers. “They’re perhaps the most challenging freshwater fish on the fly, and only in recent years have American fly fishers begun to embrace ...

About six months ago I shared how one outdoors enthusiast was dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Gary Keisler, a self-employed salesman from Mount Pleasant, was tying flies and spending free ...

Basic fly fishing instruction tells you to look for and fish the seams, where slow water and faster water come together. In the beginning, this isn't always as easy as it sounds to untrained eyes.