Fly-fishing and Maine, together, bring a number of things to mind straightaway: the quicksilver flash of brook trout, trailblazing guide “Fly Rod” Crosby, Carrie Stevens’s iconic Gray Ghost fly, ...

Thoughts of fly fishing the beach wander into my mind when I am sequestered by the mid-winter cold. Fly fishing from the beach is a wonderful, do-it-yourself approach to saltwater fly fishing. Walking ...

When Chris Jorgensen wants to “get his head on straight,” he heads to a placid trout stream. But for a bigger rush, he takes his fly rod to the beach, because saltwater for him is “pure adrenaline.” ...

With all of the visitors arriving to hit the slopes, the opposite tends to happen, too. Locals know this is the time to hop on a plane and take their fly-fishing pursuits to warmer, salty climes.

Dick Lohr's wife Jean calls it a "man-cave." She is talking about the multi-room basement where, since the early 1970s, her husband has run R-Lures Custom Flies & Bass Bugs that offers a line of ...