- Fly Fishing Tips

A first of its kind, Ken Hanley's new book on tying furled flies -- really tying flies with furled bodies -- takes the author's impressions of what the best tiers have considered the keys to their success, observation and application,...

August always reminds me of black blizzards of caddis swirling in the Bighorn twilight. Dennis Anderson recently visited Montana's Bighorn with his sons and experienced the angst of watching some big fish get away because the boys weren't quite as...

I have used a dry line approach to my alaska salmon fishing. Silver salmon tend to hold a little deeper and many people say wet line is more effective

If you even dabbed a toe in political news this week, you know that the votes are lining up on each side of the U.S. presidential contest. This past week, while soon-to-be-VP-candidate Sarah Palin was ignoring the rule against governors...

Patagonia may not have invented recyclable fishing gear (hard to compete with the indigenous Aleuts' seal-gut parkas), but it's been a part of their product-design mantra since long before "green" became synonymous with lower carbon emissions and oil consumption. And...

Local officials are considering a new solution to the problem of seals feeding on steelhead in their spawning grounds in central California: electric barriers. While similar projects are already under way for the Columbia River and two rivers in British...

A 14,000-acre wildfire has entered the south part of the Nature Conservancy preserve near Idaho's Silver Creek, but officials believe they will be able to contain the blaze by tonight....

This is the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s fishing report for August 27. If there is a body of water you would like included in this report, please call or e-mail us with information on possible sources for that lake or river.

Sport crabbers must file catch report.

OLYMPIA - Recreational crab fishing will close for a catch assessment in eight areas of Puget Sound at sunset on Labor Day, after which everyone licensed to fish for crab in the Sound will have until Sept. 15 to report their summer's catch.

Larger lakes & reservoirs

DEER CREEK RESERVOIR: The reservoir was quite crowded with boats last weekend. Weekdays are much quieter. Anglers report decent success for the three main species of fish: trout, walleye and bass. Many anglers are trolling very slowly, jigging or simply bottom fishing with bait. The key zone for trout and walleye is in 20–40 feet of water. Smallmouth bass tend to be a little shallower. Please remember that the trout limit is four fish statewide, unless otherwise noted in the 2008 Fishing Guidebook. The yellow perch limit is 10. Remember that the bass limit is six, and you should immediately release all bass over 12 inches long. The walleye limit is 10, but you may keep only one over 24 inches.