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 ...
Like the life process of many of the insects it seeks to imitate, fly tying is a metamorphosis. It starts with a bare, lifeless hook. But with care and discipline, it builds in layers, a wrap of ...