On a chilly Sunday morning at the pond at Trax Farms in Finleyville, I tried my hand at fly fish casting. I have fished just twice in my life, but with a spinner and lure. Robert Watson, the manager of the Orvis store at the Galleria of Mt. Lebanon, provided me with a condensed Fly Fishing ...

Many may only be familiar with fly fishing from the iconic scenes featured in the 1992 film, “A River Runs Through It,” starring Brad Pitt. But for anglers and would-be anglers in the South Hills, there is a little-known “port of entry” into the mysterious world of fly fishing, and ...