For fishing brooks, I often use a 6-foot fly rod that casts well in tight quarters, but some brooks and streams on Map 56 and 57 flow so widely that folks can get by with a 9-foot fly rod.

where they discussed fly fishing for bowfin and gar in Virginia. “Nothing’s more cool than chasing what we’re going to talk about today which is dinosaurs, plain and simple,” Lemcke said.