Learn more Last year, the Field & Stream team of editors decided to perform the most comprehensive and detailed fly rod test in the publication’s history. Naturally, we chose trout as the target ...

From left: Derrick Hicks, Mike Rotz and Johnathon White stand in the Boise River together, clad in fishing gear. The three men met after Hicks found a fly rod in the river days after Rotz lost it.

The fly rods made by owner Mike Clark at South Creek Ltd. are works of art with a purpose: catching fish. These handmade beauties are created to the individual's specifications, and South Creek is ...

I had specific expectations when I got this rod. It markets itself as a big streamer fly rod, and that's exactly how I planned to use it – throwing large squid-looking patterns for striped bass ...

Orvis Dealer Summit was one to remember. Orvis had been testing a new Helios fly rod, the fourth generation of this iconic ...

This story, “The Hammerhead,” appeared in the January 1953 issue of Outdoor Life. Something had to give. My fly rod had that deadly arc indicative of ultimate stress. The bend was severe just above ...