Video: Macrame Cord for Parachutes?

This week, Tim looks into something that he hears a lot in the comment of any video featuring a parachute. Will craft-store macrame cord work in place of the polypropylene yarn you buy in the fly shop? It turns out that you need to do some . . .

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Video Pro Tips: What to Do When the Bite Turns Off

One problem that every angler deals with is when the fish just aren’t buying what you’re selling. Maybe you were catching fish and then everything slowed down, or perhaps you haven’t been able to tempt anything at all. Whether you’re casting dry flies, . . .

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Master Class Monday: How to Fish Dry Flies Over Gravel Runs

Long gravel runs often look like featureless water that doesn’t offer a lot of structure to hold trout. In this week’s Master Class Monday video, Dave and Amelia Jensen explain how these stretches can actually provide great dry-fly fishing under the . . .

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Classic Friday Fly Fishing Film Festival 08.18.23

Welcome to the another edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival! Each week, we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available and then serve them up for you to enjoy. This week, we’ve got eleven videos that capture the wide . . .

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Video: How to Tie the Golden Woolly Bugger

There have been dozens, if not hundreds, of variations on the Woolly Bugger over the years, but every once in awhile you come across one that produces when nothing else will. The guys from The New Fly Fisher had just such an experience with this . . .

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Podcast: Tips for Urban Fly Fishing, with James Spica

You may have some amazing fly fishing right in your neighborhood, even if you live in a big city. Urban fly fishing may not be pristine, but it has its own charms and moments of excitement, and you don’t need to drive for hours to get to it. James . . .

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Video Pro Tips: How to Set Up a Dropper Rig

Here’s the first in a new video series called “Advanced Fly-Fishing Tactics,” from Dave and Amelia Jensen of Jensen Fly Fishing. These new videos will focus on tips and tactics designed to take . . .

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