The last few times I traveled to the South Platte River at Deckers I left my favorite one-hand fly rod at home on purpose. It’s the perfect rod for the midge hatches that sometime occur on sunny ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ Spey's the way. Tired of traditional one-handed fly-fishing — in itself a difficult, delicate art — some anglers in the Northwest are turning to Spey rods, rods so long they ...

Zach Brooks (above) points out that fishing with a spey, or two-handed fly rod has its advantages. “You can cast farther and cover more territory, handle bigger fish — and just the casting is more fun ...

“If you’ve never tried casting a two-handed fly rod, go to your local fly fishing shop and wiggle a few spey or switch rods and talk to someone who knows how it’s done,” said Pribanic, who opened ...

Fly rods have their limitations, one of which is that they are not good for long casts on streams where there is a lot of current. Yet, the Scots were undaunted by these challenges. They experimented ...

When a fishing buddy of mine offered to sell me a graphite Sage rod for a hundred bucks, I snapped at the chance without a second thought, like a brook trout sucking in a yellow humpy on a mountain ...

FREMONT -- Wes Cooper won't be fishing today, the opening day of trout fishing season. He is more likely to be in his basement shop making bamboo fly rods. Cooper, 81, has built 245 such rods since he ...

DECKERS - On a drizzly May afternoon, I hurled the gaudy streamer through the air, 50 feet across the river, with the help of an 11-foot, two-handed fly rod. This wasn't a steelhead run in the Pacific ...