For us fly tiers, this is the time to fill the fly boxes in preparation for the spring and summer season. Here is a list of patterns you should have in your boxes this year. When the ice first breaks ...

In a commendable display of skill and perseverance, Indian chess stalwart Koneru Humpy clinched the bronze medal at the 2025 FIDE World Rapid Chess Championships, held in Doha. The tournament saw ...

Indian chess star Koneru Humpy experienced a heartbreaking bronze finish at the FIDE World Rapid Championships, narrowly missing her third world rapid title due to tie-breaker rules. Humpy, alongside ...

It’s rare that a single fly pattern can work every day and in every situation on a western trout stream, but I’d argue that Rim Chung’s RS2 Emerger comes pretty darn close. Rim’s personally tied RS2s ...

The Woolly Bugger (center) with its predecessors the Woolly Worm (left) and the English Palmered Fly (right) tied and photographed By Geoff Schaake It’s common in music for a cover or variation of a ...

It’s never too early to prepare your winter fly box. Here are some of our don’t-leave-home-without fly patterns for the coming season: Akin to Charlie Craven’s Two-Bit Hooker, this Dream Cast pattern ...

see more of our stories on Google. Add Axios on Google Humpy, one of four Salmon Run mascots at Seattle Mariners home games, last year at T-Mobile Park. Photo: Ben VanHouten/Seattle Mariners/Getty ...

In the late 1990s, Michigan-based fly tyer and guide Russ Maddin began experimenting with connecting two Woolly Buggers using wire to create larger baitfish patterns. The result was a pattern that ...

Humpy Fever has taken over Seattle. Baseball fans are rooting on the Mariners with their new favorite mascot: A life-vest and water-wings-clad salmon who has long been the underdog, er, underfish, of ...

Ahead of a pivotal Game 3 in the ALCS, where the Seattle Mariners have a 2-0 lead against the Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell took the opportunity to cement Humpy’s legacy by calling ...

ON TOP OF THE SPACE NEEDLE — It’s possible that his first win went to Humpy the salmon’s head. On a celebrity tour around Seattle this week, the Mariners mascot wore a sash emblazoned with “WINNER” to ...

SEATTLE — Mayor Bruce Harrell is declaring Thursday “Humpy Day” as Seattle rallies behind the Mariners ahead of Game 4 of the American League Championship Series. The City of Seattle, Seattle Sports ...