Sustainability is the watchword these days, and harvesting meat for your freezer can also pay dividends for you and your fly-tying friends. Fall hunting goes hand in hand with the tyers bench; ...

Calling all anglers! The International Fly-Fishing Festival returns to Manistee this weekend. This is the second year of the event, with tickets on sale for this Saturday and Sunday. Executive ...

Dry fly fishing is all about presentation. You’re trying to imitate an insect sitting on the water’s surface, so it’s important that your fly actually stays on the water’s surface. That might sound ...

Is Fly Fishing Hard To Learn? Yes and no. Fly fishing is a certain kind of hard. It may not come easy, but there’s real pleasure in the practice and the learning. Fly fishing doesn’t come naturally to ...

Trout fishing in a small steam and Morel hunting. This week we chase some Trout in a small steam, then we do some Turkey hunting, and some Morel hunting as well.

Blooming redbuds and dogwoods have us daydreaming about fly fishing, and also about seeing some great fly fishing cinema.

For 78 years, The Eagle has reserved this space as a window upon the outdoors. Ted Giddings tended shop here for the first 56 years. Gene Chague did so for the most recent 22, until his retirement ...

Deer hunting season closes today, Saturday, Dec. 30. With no ice fishing on our lakes, what’ll we do now? It will be interesting to see the total of the deer harvest this year. It was a good hunting ...

I always keep a gel and powder dry fly floatant in my pack. They’re similar substances, but they’re used at different times. Before your first cast of the day, you’ll apply a small amount of the gel ...