In this week’s podcast, my guest is Eric Eikenberg, CEO of The Everglades Foundation and our major partner in this important conservation effort. For the past few years, Orvis has taken a . . .
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Classic Tuesday Tip: Mixing Up Your Streamer Retrieve
Since it’s still streamer season around here until the Hendricksons show up, I figured that a video tip about streamer retrieves—from the “Streamer Fishing” chapter on the Orvis Fly Fishing. . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Fly-Cast in Heavy Brush
The best trout are often in places where other anglers don’t even attempt to make a cast. In this video, Dave Jensen shows you how to cast in heavy brush, using the steeple cast and also a . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Rig a Heavy Wire Leader for Toothy Fish
World famous shark angler and conservationist Conway Bowman is an Orvis ambassador and field tester. In this exclusive Orvis video, he shows how he rigs his flies for giant mako sharks. The . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Fight Big Fish in Small Streams
In this great video, Amelia Jensen shows great technique for catching big trout with a fly rod in small streams. It’s not so much about what she says, as what she does that teaches so much. Notice . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Detect Strikes When Nymph Fishing
As a general rule, the distance between indicator and fly should be 1.5 times the water depth.
Photo courtesy Tom Rosenbauer
As hatches become fewer and farther between in the fall, most anglers will be fishing with subsurface nymphs or streamers. When you can’t see your fly, detecting strikes can be the difference between. . .
Read MorePodcasts: Catching Largemouth Bass in Rivers, with Winston Cundiff
Winston Cundiff with a beautiful Texas bass.
Photos courtesy Winston Cundiff
When we think of largemouth bass, most of us either have a vision of a small farm pond or a big wide-open lake. But there are many excellent largemouth bass fisheries in rivers. And the . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Slim Beauty Knot
This week for “Master Class Monday”—our new feature about taking your fly fishing skills to the next level—Pete Kutzer demonstrates the slim beauty knot. It was developed by noted . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: Nymphing without an Indicator
In fly fishing, sometimes you need to be as stealthy as possible, especially when trout are visible in the water. In those situations when a strike indicator would spook trout, you need special . . .
Read MorePro Tips: How To Choose the Right Fly Rod Size
With the holidays approaching, many of you might be putting “New Fly Rod!” on your lists of potential gifts. But this raises the question: What size fly rod do you want/need? As I explain in the above video, this question is really. . .
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