Pro Tips: Why You Should Always Carry Pheasant Tail Nymphs

Last April, I booked a day on Nelson’s Spring Creek in Montana’s Paradise Valley, hoping to enjoy a textbook blue-winged olive hatch. Upon arrival, I rigged up with a yarn indicator, a weighted scud pattern, and then 12 inches below that a Pheasant . . .

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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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Libby Camps, Day Three: The Grand Tour

On our final day of fishing at Libby Camps, in the Maine North Woods, we wanted to catch more landlocked salmon, so we planned a fly-out to a tailwater stream southwest from the lodge. Our guides, Jeff LaBree and Pete Koch, left early to make the . . .

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Podcast: Jacks Are Better, with RA Beattie

Jacks are an underrated gamefish and under-utilized resource. They take a fly aggressively, fight harder than most other saltwater gamefish, and are common in most warmer saltwater ecosystems. Yet most anglers, and most guides, pass them up on the . . .

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Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 05.26.23

Welcome to 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’ve got ten productions mostly from right here in the good ‘ol USA. But don’t worry: . . .

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5 Fly-Fishing Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

One of the great things about fly fishing is that there’s always something new to learn; dedicated anglers will never run out of new techniques, species, waters, or fly patterns to figure out. This very blog is dedicated to helping anglers of every level, from . . .

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Pro Tips: How to Fish Caddis-Pupa Flies

For many anglers, the words caddisfly hatch conjure up visions of epic days, when all you need to carry is a few Elk-Hair Caddis dry flies. Those who anticipate these hatches all winter long . . .

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