Video: How to Tie a Non-Slip Loop Knot

We have featured a couple videos on tying a great non-slip loop not. These were solid, helpful videos. But nobody does how-to videos like the folks at Tightline Productions. And, . . .

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Video: How to Tie the NZ Trico

By midsummer, most of the best insect hatches are over–especially in the East and Midwest–but dry-fly anglers still have Tricos to look forward to. These tiny mayflies can produce excellent action, but it’s tough to see such tiny flies on the surface, . . .

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Video: How to Secure Foam on Top of a Hook

Patterns that feature large pieces of foam—grasshoppers, Chubby Chernobyls, and the like—present a challenge for tiers: the foam wants to rotate around the hook shank. In this week’s One-Minute Tying Tips video from Tightline Productions, Tim . . .

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Video: A Partnership Built on Conservation

If you’ve been reading our regular Wednesday Wake-Up Call posts, you’re surely familiar with the difficulties plaguing Montana’s Big Hole watershed, as well as the efforts by our partners at Big Hole Lodge to find solutions. Wade Fellin recently made this . . .

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Video: Casting a Dry Fly Upstream vs Downstream

One of the best things about summertime fishing is that you can often throw dry flies all day long. As you work a stretch of river, you may alternate between casting upstream, to cover the head of a pool, to . . .

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Video: How to Production-Tie a Chubby Chernobyl

In last week’s One-Minute Tying Tips video, Tim Flagler of of Tightline Productions showed you how useful it can be to have all your materials prepped, in the manner of production tiers, before you tie several flies of the same pattern. Here, Tim . . .

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Video Pro Tips: A Hopper-Dropper Master Class

We’ve all heard the cliché that “10 percent of the anglers catch 90 percent of the fish,” but have you ever asked yourself why? To be a member of that 10 percent, you need to think a little more deeply about every aspect of your fishing. Here’s a great example.

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