I always look forward to getting The Old Farmer's Almanac so we can prepare for the coming winter weather. Our daughter's second grade at Young Elementary (Go, Yellowjackets!) has a jar of woolly ...

Cold air is gone and things are beginning to heat up. If you are chasing trout, get on the water and catch some fish before the real hot temperatures arrive and turn some of our trout waters into a ...

THE WOOLY BUGGER IS A COMMON FLY that is a standard pattern for most fly fishermen. Few flies possess the versatility of the wooly bugger and because of this quality, it's the one fly that I need to ...

The wooly bugger is arguably the best-known fly pattern in the world, often the first fly a beginning fly fisherman ties and fishes. It is easy to tie, easy to fish and remarkably effective for a ...

While visiting my brother years ago, my family and I went fishing in a small lake located just down the hill from his home. The lake, kind of an overflow area adjacent to the Colorado River, is known ...

The staple flies for catching trout from the Beaver tailwaters are various patterns of midges, scuds and sowbugs. But suppose you had to place all your hopes on a single solitary fly, win or lose.

Step 6. Shape your wooly bugger’s head by wrapping thread around the head of the fly near the hook’s eye. Don’t go back too far – you don’t want to cover too much of the body with excess thread. Some ...

A wooly bugger is one of my favorite trout flies. It can be dead-drifted or fished with movement under an indicator. The fly comes in many colors and variations.

Smatterings of The Compleat Angler, The Bartender's Guide and Dear Abby dot this homespun first collection of offbeat fishing tales by an inveterate Montana fly fisherman who casts his obsessive ...