Montana fishing guide Mark Raisler prepares to release a brown trout in the Missouri River during filming of "Missouri Trout: Sipping Dry," one of the films featured in the 2012 Fly Fishing Film Tour. The filmmaker, Simon Perkins, is a fly-fishing guide based near Craig, Mont.

Whether the focus is trout rising to tiny tricos in Montana or to huge cicadas in New Zealand, the global nature of the Fly Fishing Film Tour is luring anglers across the country to an evening of fine fishing – no waders or license required. The fourth annual film tour is coming to the Bing Crosby Theater in Spokane on Feb. 8 with portions of 11 films compiled into a 2-hour show.

In the early 1980s, Glenn West, an owner of The Classic Angler, another local fishing shop that eventually closed, hired Jim McCall for his first fly-fishing job.

A winter fly fishing trip to the Quality Waters of the San Juan River, just east of Farmington, N.M. is a treat. In winter the trout are many and the fishermen are few.Farmington, New Mexico (PRWEB) January 31, 2012 No need for cabin fever, skip this season’s fishing expos and fly tying seminars and head out to the San Juan River this winter, just 30 miles east of Farmington, New Mexico, below ...