The spey rod helped Turek make a 90-degree switch in the casting direction of the fly line, a difficult task with a fly rod. "You could do somewhat the same thing with a conventional fly rod by making ...

Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature ...

For many anglers, the arrival of winter ushers in a season of rest and recovery. But for those of us who pursue steelhead, winter is not the time for taking a break. It’s a time to spend long days on ...

To submit to Umpqua's signature tier program visit umpqua.com/how-to-submit-a-fly/. For beginning tiers, Josh Mills has some advice. First, take a lesson, he said ...

Harry Lemire is fly-fishing's version of the Latin scholar, a singular crusader who keeps alive one dead and forgotten dialect in the language of fly-tying. The 68-year-old Washingtonian quite ...