“Tying a fly is not magic,” said Len Savanella. “The average person can do it.” As Fishing Manager of Orvis at the Ridge Hill Shopping Center in Yonkers, Savanella has been backing up his words with ...

On July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong was becoming the first man to put bootprints on the moon, I was getting my first introduction to the sport of fly-fishing on an icy mountain stream in Idaho. It ...

It paid off. According to "A Graceful Rise," after four years, Mary became the manager of the C.F. Orvis Company's fly-tying operations. Under her watch, the Orvis fly-tying department hired local ...

Lake Erie’s migratory trout soon will draw anglers from near and far as steelhead trout seek out the rivers where they were stocked so they can spawn. Once the river waters cool down, the fish swim up ...

The new fly-fishing catalogs started showing up at my house a few weeks ago. I had gotten Cabela’s, L.L. Bean, Orvis, my favorite, Kaufmanns’ Streamborn; and about another 50 pounds of others. It was ...

I’ve tied my own leaders almost as long as I’ve been fly-fishing. At first I did so because I enjoyed the hands-on connection with all aspects of my tackle, and to a lesser extent because I could tie ...