In those states with closed fishing seasons, Opening Day is fast approaching–it’s April 11 here in Vermont–so we’re celebrating with a great photo contest on Instagram and Facebook. If you’ve got a great fly-fishing . . .
Read MorePodcast: Trout-Spey Flies with Tim Flagler
We’ve done a bit with trout Spey on the podcast, but never one specifically on flies for trout Spey. Luckily, Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions, who produces the best fly tying videos, has become a trout Spey addict . . .
Read MoreVideo: The First Episode of “Tying with Tom”
After a few technical difficulties, today’s premier of “Tying with Tom” was a big success, as Tom walked the audience through the basic tools every fly tier needs and then tied a Zebra Midge. We will be doing more of . . .
Read More“Literary Treasures” by William G. Tapply
Bill Tapply fishes one of his beloved Montana spring creeks.
Photo via williamgtapply.com
“The literature of angling falls into two genres: the instructional and the devotional,” wrote William Humphrey in his satirical little novel My Moby Dick. “The former is written by fishermen who. . .
Read MoreThe First “Fly Tying with Tom” Facebook Live is This Afternoon!
Since so many folks are working at home, we’re launching a series of Facebook Live fly-tying events as a way to connect. The first “Fly Tying with Tom” event happens TODAY at 3 p.m. on the Orvis Fly Fishing Facebook . . .
Read MoreClassic Podcast: Fly Fishing with Your Family, with Derek Olthuis
Derek Olthuis with a stunning bull trout.
Photo courtesy Derek Olthuis
This week, Orvis Ambassador Derek Olthuis and I talk about fishing with your kids and family. Derek has three young children, and he fishes as much as anyone I know, so he has some great tips . . .
Read MoreVideo: The Creek
Video: The Creek
AuthorPhil MonahanPosted onMarch 18, 2020CategoriesFly Fishing
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Last year, our old pal Rolf Nylinder released this gorgeous film, which is a beautiful story about exploring his home waters in search of trout. A stay-at-home dad, Rolf no longer has the luxury of traveling to the far corners of the . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Read Water to Find Fish
The ability to read water is among the more vital fly-fishing skills because it helps you to figure out where you should focus your attention. There’s no use casting to places where there are probably . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Hatching Pupa
When I was first learning to fly-fish, in the early 1990s, my older brother, Brian, often took me to Stonehouse Pond, in Barrington, New Hampshire. We’d canoe around the 14-acre pond, casting nymphs and Hornbergs for stocked . . .
Read MoreClassic Podcast: Fly-Tying Tips and Hints
This week is all about fly tying. I took a whole bunch of questions that came in over the past week (thank you very much for your great questions), and we spend about an hour going over some tricky and not-so-tricky questions. The hardest one for me was. . .
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