Linda Leary wanted to create a line of fishing apparel for women. She’d been fly-fishing ever since she was a kid growing up in Maine. Back then, she says, there was a lot less women’s gear, so she ...

Women on the Water: Breaking barriers and redefining fly fishing. / Photo by Jen Ripple Over the past several years, women have become the largest growing demographic in fly fishing, stepping into ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Allison Olmsted covers lifestyle for active women as The Gear Diva. Founded in 1856, the Orvis Company claims to be the oldest ...

When Cara Smith was a teenager growing up in the Traverse City region, she often spent time at her grandparents' house on the Boardman River, sewing fishing rod bags with her grandmother and helping ...

I first hit the woods in the 1980s, toting a hand-me-down rifle and cast-offs from my dad’s extensive camo arsenal. I was a skinny preteen girl wrapped like a burrito in oversized Trebark. Even after ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Pink rubber boots are necessary to avoid fish guts while reeling in red snapper and grouper, but are also a fashion statement and a good way to disguise unmanicured toes. Lengthy ...

REEDSBURG — Two friends from Reedsburg have turned a hobby into a business with the goal of getting more women involved in the sport of fishing and the outdoors. Samantha Minor and Cortney Fry have ...

[W]hen Genevieve Kurilec McDonald got an 8 a.m. call this March from the president of fishermen’s gear manufacturer Grundéns USA, she flashed back to December 2013. “It was winter,” remembers the ...

After years of target practice, 24-year-old Kelly Hancock finally decided it was time to go hunting. This past summer, the Pennsylvania woman and her 18-year-old sister, Andrea, bought themselves deer ...