, fast-shooting heads, fast-drying UV resin, and even pre-made wings, legs, and tails that let you whip up flies faster than ever. This might be why spun-hair bass bugs aren’t commonplace in fly boxes ...

Offshore Billfish Popper, courtesy Peter Bowers at The Patient Angler. The popper can lure sailfish or marlins as well. If you want to take a sailfish or a marlin on a fly rod, try the Offshore ...

JIM THORPE, Pa. — We'll head to the fly shop of Tom Lienhard to watch him tie up a bass popper.

There’s a lot to like about bass, but my favorite thing about them is their willingness to crush a topwater fly. They’re one of the most surface-oriented game fish – and, while trying to raise a fish ...

Fly-fishing is the purest form of fishing, or so it has been said. Nothing tops wading a stream, carefully presenting an artificial fly and fooling a fish into biting. Unless the fly was one you tied ...

Lifelong Brea resident and avid fly fisherman Cliff Hamilton learned how to tie Bass Poison Poppers, a type of fishing fly, from his neighbor, Hank Niverka. Several years later, when Hank passed away, ...

If you are looking for a fun and productive way to spend those long winter evenings, or even now during the "dog days" of August, I'd suggest making foam-bodied bass and panfish poppers. Closed-cell ...

Fly fishing for bream is great fun, and an innovative double fly rig is deadly on the panfish. "I guarantee it will work for you," says avid fly angler Mike McQuiston, who fishes the St. Johns River ...

A tying class will be conducted by Joe Bania of Northern California on tying Poppers. Bania is a member of NCFFF, Trout Unlimited, and many of the Northern California Clubs. Bania's flies are sold in ...