When he was in college, Sioux Falls resident Nick Bentele visited a friend in Colorado. Bentele didn’t come from an outdoors family, but one morning in Colorado, his friend’s dad took the two out fly ...

Galligan's rewarding if grim second fly-fishing mystery (after 2003's The Nail Knot) offers an emotionally tortured protagonist, Ned Oglivie (aka Dog), and a clan of misfits and survivors worthy of ...

As any experienced angler will know, some knots are better than others -- but exactly why a "blood knot" should be stronger than, say, a "reef knot" is far from clear. Now, physicists in Japan have ...