Finally, a strong fly rod allows you to put serious heat on a muskie and get it to the net quickly. If you pay attention, muskie guys—both fly and conventional—don’t let the fish run. They want it in ...

To cast his flies, Young generally uses a 10-foot, 10-weight fly rod, special pike/muskie 10-weight fly line and a 12-inch tippet made from nylon-coated stainless steel leader material.

Fly rods are organized by “weight”—not the ... A great bonus to owning an 8-weight for salmon and steelhead is that you now also have a rod for northern pike, musky, carp, striped bass ...

Blane Chocklett, the designer of the TFO BC Big Fly fly rod with one of his Game Changer streamers. / photo provided by TFO I had specific expectations when I got this rod. It markets itself as a ...

HAYWARD, Wis. — The fish of 10,000 casts? As Brad Bohen was preparing to launch his drift boat into Upper Twin Lake in northern Wisconsin, he paused long enough to cast his 9-foot fly rod off ...

If fly fishing for trout is the elegance and grace of a no-look pass in basketball, then fly fishing for northern pike is a rim-rattling slam dunk.

They call the muskie a fish of 1,000 casts. Well, Overland Park, Kansas fly fisherman Brad Kellerman beat those odds last week. On his 150th cast at Fellows Lake north of Springfield, Kellerman ...

First Impressions. I took the TFO BC fly rod to the field behind my house to get some practice in. I was expecting a heavy ...