Friday Fly Fishing Film Festival 12.01.23

Welcome to the another edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival! Each week, we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available and then serve them up for you to enjoy. This week, we’ve got a dozen wonderful productions to help . . .

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Pro Tip: Getting the Most Out of Roll Casts

Roll casts are a very important tool to have in your casting arsenal. Aside from being one of my personal favorite casts, the roll cast is one of the most used casts and a great skill to practice at home. The three most common reasons. . .

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Video Pro Tips: How to Cast a Wide Loop

When you picture the perfect fly cast, it probably has a nice, tight loop that’s going to impress anyone watching. But as Matt Wilhelm points out in this video from Montana Angler, a tight loop can create problems when your casting heavy flies . . .

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Video Pro Tips: Do Leaders and Tippets Expire?

Here’s another great episode in a video series called “Q&A,” from Brian Flechsig of Mad River Outfitters in Columbus, Ohio. It’s a pretty self-explanatory title, methinks. In this video, Flechsig answers the question “Do leaders and tippet have an . . .

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Wednesday Wake-Up Call: 11.29.23

We live in a sound-bite culture, so here is a rare opportunity to get a concise, in-depth analysis of an important issue. In this video, Cameron Sabin of the National Park Diaries YouTube channel explains what the proposed project is, its recent . . .

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Video: “Practice”

Here’s a cool, short rumination on fly fishing as a practice, as well as on how actual practice is vital. If you don’t have a fly-fishing practice routine, consider setting one up; you’ll see the benefits very quickly. That fish that used to be out of reach? Not . . .

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Video: How to Tie the Icy Hot Jig

In this week’s great fly-tying how-to video, Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions shows you how to tie a winter jig pattern that combines a cool blue abdomen with a hot orange thorax. Tim has found that blue is a great winter color and that orange . . .

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Video: 7 Stupid Mistakes That Can Ruin Your Fishing Trip

Alvin Dedeaux—of All Water Guides in Austin, Texas—has done a lot of fly-fishing travel, which means that he’s made a lot of stupid mistakes. In this video, he’s kind enough to share what he’s learned so you don’t have to suffer the consequences of . . .

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