Thank goodness for innovations in fly-tying, or else we’d be forced to continue catching fish on the same flies, season after season. This winter, I’ve decided to climb aboard the jig hook bandwagon.

After the original Mister Twister came onto the market, I did not tie a bucktail jig for a couple of years. Then I ran out of bucktail jigs and realized that they had not been replaced by soft plastic ...

Editor's note: This article is the third in a three-part series. As flies go, the red-and-white Lefty's deceiverlike pattern I had tied one recent evening sure wouldn't have won any awards. It wasn't ...