Video: How to Brace Your Trimming Hand

Have you ever gone to trim some fibers on a fly you’re tying and accidentally trimmed something else? Or perhaps you ended up trimming more than you intended to, ruining the pattern’s . . .

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Video: How to Tie the Dedeaux Snake

Here’s another “guide-fly” lesson from Alvin Dedeaux of All Water Guides. (Or, as he calls them, “super easy to tie, down and dirty, quick and easy, fish-catching guide flies.”) As Alvin says, he doesn’t want to create flies that are complicated or take a long time . . .

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Video: 2 Fly-Casting Tips to Up Your Game

Here’s another good video in the ongoing series on fly casting from Brain Flechsig of Mad River Outfitters in Columbus, Ohio. Here, he offer two foundational tips: 1. always start and end the cast with your rod tip low; and 2. the timing of the cast is a . . .

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Video: How to Tie an A.K. Best Spent Caddis

In this great video, Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions shows you how to tie Best’s simple, cool spent-wing caddisfly imitation. The main feature is a down wing that envelopes the dubbed body, and Tim’s method for ensuring the feather stays where it . . .

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Video: How to Fish Streamers for Big Trout

In Episode 5 of the Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing, host Tom Rosenbauer explains in great detail all the fundamentals you need to know. This video includes: understanding why trout eat batifish, what streamers to choose and why, fly line choices, and . . .

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