“I began tying poppers and bream killers for stores around here, and it helped,” he said. “During the 1980s work was slow and guys said I needed to go on unemployment, and after a couple of weeks I ...

Lifelong Brea resident and avid fly fisherman Cliff Hamilton learned how to tie Bass Poison Poppers, a type of fishing fly, from his neighbor, Hank Niverka. Several years later, when Hank passed away, ...

JIM THORPE, Pa. — We'll head to the fly shop of Tom Lienhard to watch him tie up a bass popper.

MOUNT VERNON — Bruce Freet pulls up a chair at his meticulously organized fly-tying desk inside a room — part office, part man cave — of his Mount Vernon home. Like many fly fishermen, a decent chunk ...