, fast-shooting heads, fast-drying UV resin, and even pre-made wings, legs, and tails that let you whip up flies faster than ever. This might be why spun-hair bass bugs aren’t commonplace in fly boxes ...

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

Fly-fishing is the purest form of fishing, or so it has been said. Nothing tops wading a stream, carefully presenting an artificial fly and fooling a fish into biting. Unless the fly was one you tied ...