TRAVERSE CITY — People used to poke fun at Dave McCool because he likes to fish for carp with a fly rod. Carp, after all, are reviled by many anglers in the United States, thought of as a rough, ...

On July 20, 1969, as Neil Armstrong was becoming the first man to put bootprints on the moon, I was getting my first introduction to the sport of fly-fishing on an icy mountain stream in Idaho. It ...

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Chuck Atkins stood waist-deep in chilly water with a fly rod in hand as a predicament spread out before him–dozens of carp feeding vigorously near the Chicago shore of Lake Michigan. For a purist fly ...