Hooking and reeling in the fish is material only if you plan on eating it, which most anglers don’t these days. And catch-and-release fishing takes its toll on the fish. By Brian J. Cantwell
Times travel & outdoors editor
The sport, or art, or however you regard it, is in reading the river, thinking like a hungry trout, and maneuvering the well-chosen hand-tied fly on the end of a whirling line and depositing it where a fish is ready to strike.
Hooking and reeling in the fish is material only if you plan on eating it, which most anglers don’t these days.
So why not fish with hookless flies?
