DULUTH — "I’m a professional stay-at-home dad with a YouTube channel," Gunnar Brammer said when asked to describe his job. "I guess I’m a professional fly tier, too, since I teach fly-tying classes ...

Winners have been announced of a recent fly tying contest sponsored by Bob Marriott’s Flyfishing Store in Fullerton. The judging was done by three master fly tyers — Skip Morris, Bob Quigley and Bill ...

With the high water in effect, anglers have been chucking some meat in the off-colored conditions, taunting trout filled with hunger pains. Broad, dark streamers catch the watchful eye of weary trout.

LIKE MANY ANGLERS, I began fishing primarily in freshwater. When I took up fly fishing it was for trout and, later, bass in the Potomac River. My growth as a fly tier was much the same. First I ...