OISTINS, Barbados — Some of the dumbest questions I’ve ever asked as a reporter have concerned food. One time in Belgium I asked my hotel clerk where I could find a good Belgian waffle. “Belgium,” she ...

There’s much more to fly fishing than tying on a fly and whipping your line around a pond. Casting, hook setting and reeling all demand a level of finesse that goes beyond what anglers experience when ...

One thing I pondered recently on a river in Montana: Maybe fly-fishing doesn’t have to be about hooking fish. The sport, or art, or however you regard it, is in reading the river, thinking like a ...

Thanks to films (and novellas) like A River Runs Through It along with historical figures like James A. Hensall waxing eloquent about the way it calms "over-taxed brains and wearied nerves," ...

An invitation to a wedding in Colorado provided an excuse for a week's vacation exploring mountains and mesas, long-abandoned mining camps and sprawling ranches. But it was the prospect of fly-fishing ...