Wet Fly
Business briefs: March 10
Meeting Tuesday on coal ash storage planTVA will hold a public meeting Tuesday in Kingston to gather views on changing the handling of coal fly ash from a wet system to a dry storage system at the Kingston Fossil Plant.The meeting will be from 5:30-8 p.m. in the cafeteria of Roane [...]

Although most flies represent water insects, a terrestrial fly is made to imitate a land insect that has fallen into the water. The two most common terrestrials that are imitated for fly fishing are the ant and the grasshopper.Although there are hundreds of  types of flies used for fly fishing, most of them fall into [...]

Fly-fishing, a fun sportFly-fishing is an ancient angling method especially effective in catching trout and salmon. This distinct method of angling uses artificial flies to lure or excite fish. Fly-fishing helps anglers catch the fish easier than the traditional way.There are two basic forms of fly-fishing, dry flies and wet flies.Dry flies need coating with [...]

Although fly fishing was credited first to the Roman Claudius Aelianus sometime during the second century, modern history of fly fishing is said to have really originated on the rivers of Scotland and northern England. Fly fishing was directly associated with a book called The Treatyse of Fysshynge with an Angle, published in 1496, attributed [...]