I have a gift for turning a simple task into a tangled nightmare. Something as easy as replacing fly line becomes an ordeal of knots and bird nests. Fly line is expensive. You don’t just throw it away ...

You would think after more than 20 years of replacing and changing out fly line on my reels, I’d be able to do it without ending up in a tangled mess. Most of the time, I manage just fine. But when I ...