In the beginning of your fly fishing journey, the most common concept of fly fishing is floating a "bug"-like fly on the top of the water to induce a fish to strike. The fly is supposed to represent a ...

Some people may have never heard of a mayfly. Or maybe they’ve known the insect as the fishfly or shadfly. “Mayflies are a large part of a fly fisherman’s life,” said Jess Westbrook, a Benton native. ...

What do you picture when you think of fly fishing for trout? If your answer is casting a bug imitation that floats and then watching a fish rise to sip it off the surface, I’d say you fall in with the ...

Fishing Researchers aren’t the only ones who track mayflies. Fly anglers closely follow the timing of mayfly hatches as a potential opportunity to catch fish, sometimes on a dry fly. Depending on the ...

In this edition of The Starting Spot: -If you’ve ever been around a lake during a mayfly hatch you can imagine just how big of an impact a natural event like that can have on an ecosystem. The sudden ...

Let's be honest, fly fishing isn't the easiest approach to the sport. With that being said, it's also not as big of a burden as most make it seem. The interest in fly fishing continues to increase in ...

If you’ve ever wondered about the water quality in a stream, river or lake you are fishing, just ask a mayfly. Mayflies are winged insects that spend the early stages of their life underwater before ...