Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 03.17.23

Welcome to the St. Patrick’s Day edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival! Each week, we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available, and curate them for you. This week, we’re featuring a dozen stunning productions, kicking . . .

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Video: A Plethora of Tips & Tricks from The New Fly Fisher

Viewers of The New Fly Fisher TV show know that each episode contains a cool destination, some great fish, and a bunch of fly-fishing tips and tricks. In this video, they’ve collected all the helpful clips from a whole season into one video. From fishing . . .

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Video: How to Tie the Calico Caddis

In the latest how-to tying video from Tightline Productions, Tim Flagler walks you through the steps to create a two-tone caddis-larva imitation that looks buggy as heck. He notes than net-spinning caddisflies (of the family Hydropsychidae) . . .

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Video: One Tip to Improve Your Double-Haul Cast

Once an angler has learned the basic cast and how to shoot line, the next step is mastering the double haul, which helps to generate more line speed and allows for longer casts. Most casters have no problem with . . .

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Video: How to Tie a Surgeon’s Knot with Cold Hands

We’ve all been there: you’re out on the river on a cold day, and you need to add tippet to your leader. Problem is, your fingers simply don’t work right when they’re chilled. Here’s a neat little tip from Greenhorn Flyhorn that will help. He shows you . . .

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Video: How and Why to Use Maximum Thread Tension

In this great video, Tim explains why he believes that thread tension is the key to improving the quality, look, and durability of your flies, and then he sets about showing how to achieve this level of tension. From adjusting your bobbin to bracing the . . .

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Beyond the River: a Slovenia Fly-Fishing Film

Here’s a quirky but affecting film about living out your fly-fishing dreams, by Nofi Genet. Starting with a dream to use his filmmaking skills as a ticket to travel the world, he eventually fixates on Slovenia, spending the next two years dealing . . .

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Master Class Monday: How to Fish a Rock Garden

A rock garden in a river presents an angler with a target-rich environment, featuring lots of seams, runs, soft spots, and pillows. Dave and Amelia Jensen stumbled upon this set of rocks with active trout, and Amelia ran the camera as Dave prospected . . .

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