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

MOUNT VERNON — Bruce Freet pulls up a chair at his meticulously organized fly-tying desk inside a room — part office, part man cave — of his Mount Vernon home. Like many fly fishermen, a decent chunk ...

“I began tying poppers and bream killers for stores around here, and it helped,” he said. “During the 1980s work was slow and guys said I needed to go on unemployment, and after a couple of weeks I ...

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, ...