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In this edition of The Evening Hatch: • Until you've experienced the sight-fishing challenge of targeting feeding carp, or trying to stop a ten-pound specimen on a blistering run with a 6-weight fly ...

About six months ago I shared how one outdoors enthusiast was dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. Gary Keisler, a self-employed salesman from Mount Pleasant, was tying flies and spending free ...

Basic fly fishing instruction tells you to look for and fish the seams, where slow water and faster water come together. In the beginning, this isn't always as easy as it sounds to untrained eyes.

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 ...

Phil Willmert of Cape Girardeau caught this grass carp on a fly rod on flooded Main Street of Cape Girardeau by Red Star Access on June 5, 2015. The fish measured just over 35 inches. He caught it on ...

They are abundant, challenging and strong. Even so, people wrinkle their noses at the lowly carp, a species that some have nicknamed “sewer salmon.” But the warm water fish does have a devoted and ...

BATH, Illinois-- For one weekend every year, the small town of Bath, Illinois, northwest of Springfield, triples in size all because of a fishing tournament. But it isn't just any fishing tournament; ...