If anyone has seen October, please tell him to show up for work! It has been hotter in the last five weeks than we have been all summer....

As we begin closing another chapter on the season we call summer, the cooler crisp nights and early mornings have the trout eager to sip...

Fall, 2001. My first fall as a student at WCU, on a whim, a neighbor on the 8th floor of Scott Hall asked me to go fly fishing with him...

We are less than eight weeks away from the start of the Delayed Harvest season for trout in Western North Carolina. Many anglers skills...

With the ever evolving world of fly fishing gear, fly fishing packs have changed the way we carry gear. Most of us or at least many of...

Grandma is ringing the dinner bell and the trout are headed to the table looking for a good meal and we have some good meals for them! ...

Our fly tying aficionado, Shannon Messer walks us through the steps in tying a deer hair caddis fly. This is an excellent pattern to fish...

May was a wet month for us here in the mountains, but that doesn’t mean fishing is out of the question. Streams in the Great Smoky...

Tuck Fly Shop guide and shop guy Shannon Messer demonstrates how to tie a simple variation of a classic fly. This jig style pattern is...

In baseball, you can not play the game without a catcher.  Thus, in fly fishing you can't "properly" and ethically land a larger fish...