Meeting a stray dog brings you to a crossroads of sorts. The choices you make in the next few minutes, days, and weeks could be no less than life changing—for you and the wayward furry fellow.
Read MoreClassic Pro Tip: Keep Your Fly In the Water
Your chances of catching a gorgeous trout like this increase the longer your fly is in the strike zone.
Photo by Shawn Combs
There’s an old saying among fishermen: You can’t catch fish if your line isn’t in the water. I believe that this is one of the reasons that wives often outfished their more-experienced husbands on float trips when I guided on the Yellowstone and in Alaska. Whereas the husband recognized every great trout lie the boat floated past and. . .
Read MoreTips for Fishing High-Elevation Lakes for Brook Trout
My friend Jeff and I recently took our families to explore a high elevation lake and stream in the Uinta Mountains of Utah for a couple of days. The hike to the lake was only about a mile, but we had heard good things about it. When we arrived, . . .
Read MoreVideo: A Primer on Natural Dubbing Materials
There are lots of choices when it comes to natural dubbing materials, but do you know the differences between, say, rabbit, beaver, muskrat, or angora? Tim offers a quick take on each, highlighting its best uses for fly tiers. As you build your . . .
Read MoreClassic Fish Story: The Hot Dog Trout
Written by: Bryan Eldredge
Guide Bryan Eldredge with his improvised hot-dog-fork
Photo courtesy Bryan Eldredge
My teenage daughter’s text message said, “You’re stupid for running out of gas!” I knew she was kidding, but I was stupid. And the real stupidity was that I had run out of gas along Utah’s Provo River with a truckload of fishing gear, . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Mondays: How to Catch Trout in Shallow-Water Undercuts
Brown trout love to hold near undercut banks because such a lie offers them the best of all worlds: they don’t have to work against a fast current, they have a conveyor-belt of food going by, and the cover of the undercut bank means that they feel safe. . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to String a Fly Rod
In the latest how-to video from Ben Sittig, a.k.a Huge Fly Fisherman, he teaches you one of the first things you need to know as a fly fisher: how to string your rod so you can start casting. Although this is a simple task, we’ve all seen folks do it wrong . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: Understanding Fly Lines
Last year, Brian Flechsig of Mad River Outiffters in Columbus, Ohio, launched a great new series called “Getting Started in Fly Fishing.” In Episode 8, Flechsig walks you through the various options for choosing the right line to match your equipment . . .
Read MorePro Tips: Top 5 Subsurface Flies for Largemouth Bass
Written by: Alvin Dedeaux, All Water Guides
Subsurface patterns, such as this crawfish, will take bass when they’re not willing to eat bugs on top.
Photo courtesy All Water Guides
Just like trout, largemouth bass spend most of their time feeding below the surface. And as most people would agree that catching trout on dry flies is more exciting, watching a bass explode on . . .
Read MoreClassic Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 08.09.19
Welcome to the latest edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available. This week, we’ve got a thirteen killer. . .
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