Sometimes it’s all about being in the right place at the right time. But smart fly fishers read the water and look for trout feeding on nymphs and dry flies in very discrete places on a river or pond. It’s . . .
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“How do I become a guide?” “Should I get a job as a guide?” “How do I train to be a fishing guide?” “What skills do I need?” I get these questions all the time on podcast requests, and because . . .
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After a long Christmas break, we’ve finally gotten back into a regular podcast schedule. This week, our guest is Conway Bowman, known for his targeting of large mako sharks on a fly rod in the . . .
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By now you have probably experienced a broken tippet knot, either caused by a big fish or a snag. The Orvis tippet knot is easy to tie, just slightly more difficult than a surgeon’s knot, but . . .
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Most fish lost in fly-fishing are lost either at the moment you strike or when you attempt to land them. Playing a fish on a fly rod is a relatively simple matter of making the fish work against. . .
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Tight-line or “Euro” nymphing is a very effective way to catch trout when fly fishing, and it works when other methods are not effective, like when trout are in deep water and not feeding aggressively. Dave Jensen shows how he utilizes this nymphing . . .
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I am betting that this week’s podcast—an interview with superb videographer and fly tier Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions—will be one of the most popular of the year. As typically . . .
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There is a period of dry-fly activity on most trout streams every fall that rivals the best hatches of spring. It’s a “fall” (as opposed to a hatch) of migrating winged ants, and when these insects . . .
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In this week’s podcast, I have the pleasure of chatting with John Gierach, probably the most popular fly-fishing writer in the world (based on the fact that all 18 of his books are still in . . .
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This week, we offer some tips on trout fishing in lakes from Phil Rowley, one of the top stillwater experts in North America. I asked Phil to host the stillwater chapter on from the Orvis Fly . . .
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