I sometimes envy trout fisherman. They fish for the most part in water that has a minimum of snags in pristine areas. Even when fishing for them in lakes, the trout they pursue don’t usually hide in ...

From author John Gierach comes the Weedless Woolly Bugger, based on the design of saltwater bonefish flies. Use it for bass or trout in weed-infested waters. This fly is designed to ride with the hook ...

A fly that has been tweaked for about a decade now and is about as far as I can take the design.. The only development that eludes me is making the froggy fly weedless but not fish-less in the process ...