Here’s an important video in Orvis casting instructor Pete Kutzer’s series on getting started in fly fishing. Pete discusses one of the more contentious subjects in fly casting: whether or not there’s a . . .
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Video: How to Tie the Superfine Sulphur Spinner
It’s sulphur season in much of the country, when these bright yellow mayflies emerge or return to the water at dusk. When there are tons of bugs on the water, trout have plenty of options to choose from, and they’re often more likely to eat something . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Remove a Fly Stuck in Your Skin
Fly fishing can sometimes be a hazardous game, what with all those hooks flying around. Sometimes, unfortunately, the pointy end finds its way into someone’s skin. We discussed this . . .
Read MoreVideo: 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 . . .
Read MoreVideo: 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 . . .
Read MoreVideo: Tips on Fishing Streamers from the Bank During Runoff
Runoff has begun in earnest throught the West, and it will only get worse where the snowpack has been highest. Here’s a helpful video in which Fred Telleen offers a few tips to help you hook and land more fish on streamers when you’re casting from the . . .
Read MoreVideo: 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 . . .
Read MoreVideo: 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 . . .
Read MoreVideo: Over, Under, Gone: The Killer in Our Rivers
As anglers, we spend a lot of time on rivers, whether we’re wading or in some sort of watercraft. And the more we engage in these activities, the more confident we become that we know . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Store All Kinds of Fly-Tying Materials
Very few of us have as many fly-tying materials as Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions, but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn a lot from this cool tour of his tying room in which he describes his best tricks for storing materials. From simple Ziploc bags to . . .
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