It might seem odd that as an outdoor writer, I pen most of my pieces in my basement office. It gets very little natural light, just what can sneak in from the one small window at ground level, past ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. I thought I’d looked everywhere. On the fly tying table. On the ground. On my wife’s desk. In the ...

Mike Wallace of Brunswick puts the finishing touches on a fly that helps pass long winter evenings and offers hope for spring. Credit: Courtesy of Bill Graves I can’t really remember how old I was ...

There’s no official fly-tying season, but if there was it would be in the depths of winter. The image of a fly tier hunched over their fly-tying vise on a cold winter’s night is about as romantic as ...

BREWER, Maine — On a cold winter night, at the end of a dark gravel road, the parking lot is full. Inside, 32 students gather around tables with piles of fish hooks, feathers and other materials in ...

When it comes to the materials to tie flies, the options are endless. I started collecting my materials based on the flies I was learning to tie, however, I’ll list some of the “must have” materials ...