Tag: teaching

This is a fun story that comes to us from the Ozarks Independent, in Missouri. The Springfield Public Schools district has a summer "Outdoor U" program that, among other skills, is teaching students fly fishing. The school focuses on teaching middle-school aged students about the outdoors and outdoor sports, including survival skills. It's heartening to...

In his latest podcast, Tom Rosenbauer offers a "10-step plan for getting a kid into fly fishing." "Number One: Get them into fishing first, particularly with younger kids. There are other ways of fishing that are easier than fly fishing. Most of us don't think they are as much fun, they're a little more mechanical, you don't have to think as much, you don't...

LEFTY KREH has been teaching knot tying alongside casting and fly fishing techniques for longer than most of us have been fly fishing. He's also written at least three important books on knot tying. He started with Practical Fishing and Boating Knots in 1975, then followed up with Practical Fishing Knotsin 1984, and then in 2004 published Fly Fishing...