Manchester, VT, is something of a time capsule. It’s a two-stoplight town lined with marble sidewalks, manicured lawns, and immaculately restored colonial homes, many of which date back as far as the ...

Lake Erie’s migratory trout soon will draw anglers from near and far as steelhead trout seek out the rivers where they were stocked so they can spawn. Once the river waters cool down, the fish swim up ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The man who transformed the Vermont-based ...

Continued from "Are Orvis Helios D and F Fly Rods Really That Different on the Water?". In June, I took the 8-weight Orvis Helios D and Helios F fly rods with me to fish the Brewster Flats of Cape Cod ...

Henry Clark of Fairhope does some fly fishing on Smith Lake in this January 2009 photo. (Birmingham News file photo) If you've ever wanted to learn how to fly fish, Orvis has an unbeatable deal for ...

What is the "on the water, real-life" difference between the Orvis Helios D (D=Distance) and the Orvis Helios F (F=Finesse)? I studied all the specs and then read the reviews, which seem to focus on ...

You can’t say we didn’t come well-armed: In our flats skiff in the Bahamas, my buddy and I had five fly fishing rods. The rods came from three different manufacturers, in sizes designed to handle any ...

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Dear readers: In 2020, the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment and Susan B. Anthony's 200th birthday — which is Saturday, Feb. 15 — many cultural institutions are proclaiming this as "the year of ...