It’s not every work of art that appeals to fish as well as to people. But that’s one of the perks when you practice the art of fly-tying. When something doesn’t quite work out, you can throw it back ...

Traditional Irish salmon flies, commissioned 120 years ago for the Cork International Exhibition in 1902, are set to feature in a new historical picture book to mark World Book Day. Fly tying involves ...

The recent Irish Fly Fair in Galway saw the launch of the latest encyclopaedic work on classic salmon flies by Waterville angling historian, Martin Lanigan-O’Keeffe. The historian, whose previous book ...

He said that salmon are not attracted to the insect-like appearance of the flies but to the shininess of them from light and their movement in the water. From a book published in 1853, Hughes has ...

BAR NUNN - Clearly you don't need a fully dressed Atlantic salmon fly to catch a fish with a brain the size of a peanut any more than you need a vintage Bentley Continental to buzz down to the corner ...