Editor's note: This article is the third in a three-part series. As flies go, the red-and-white Lefty's deceiverlike pattern I had tied one recent evening sure wouldn't have won any awards. It wasn't ...

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 ...

The Hudson Valley lost a great angler, fly tier and person on Feb. 18. Born and raised in Poughkeepsie, Dick Talleur has been a household name in fly fishing for decades. Although he later moved to ...