A couple years ago, I went fishing on the West Branch of the Delaware River at one of its less charming, but still very fishy, access points, the village of Deposit waste water treatment plant.

Chuck Atkins stood waist-deep in chilly water with a fly rod in hand as a predicament spread out before him–dozens of carp feeding vigorously near the Chicago shore of Lake Michigan. For a purist fly ...

Don't turn up your nose at carp, Chris Hunt tells fly fishers. “They’re perhaps the most challenging freshwater fish on the fly, and only in recent years have American fly fishers begun to embrace ...

Fishing for carp and smallies on the Beaver Island flats is earning renown the world ’round. Our correspondent investigates, fly rod in hand. “Do you see it?” This is the seventh time my guide has ...

Trout have eyes on the sides of their head for a reason. / Photo by Mark Pickrel Trout face upstream, so they can only see you if you’re upstream of them – right? Logical assumption, but not right.