Just consider the mess on my fly-tying desk. Hair clippings and wisps of dubbing ... of elk, deer and moose hair. More than a ... tools they’ll need to for a certain fly pattern.

The Montana Fly Co. offers more than 1,000 fly patterns, from Adams to zonkers, and from micro-midges to monster "double-bunny" pike streamers, each in four or five different sizes. "Last year ...

Check any fly fisherman’s fly box and it’s likely you will find a bit of Troth’s legacy. In 1957, Troth designed one of the most definitive dry-fly patterns of all time – the elk hair ...