Recently, I had the pleasure of having my two youngest grandchildren, ages 4 and 7, visit me. When they arrived, they informed me they wanted to catch fish, not cast for fish, but catch. I was ...

For the longest time, anglers would tell me that what they landed their fish on was a San Juan worm. And even though I used various worm patterns, I never could seem to catch anything on one. Of ...

Fly fishing came into vogue in the early 20th century, and with it came criticism of worm fishing: It was too easy. The debate was considered to be of such importance that, in 1904, Atlantic Monthly ...