Having all but ignored it for many years, I’ve begun experimenting with rabbit fur as a fly-tying material, and I like it. I’m not sure why I never got much into it before — there has always been ...

A tie-it-in-the-dark surgeon's knot (three passes) holds the wire to the leader and the wonderful jam knot (or figure 8) does great to keep the fly on the wire. Everyone has their favorite flies, but ...