On Monday, I posted about how you can send in your photos to appear on the Orvis News, and I’ve already received some great submissions. I’ll post some readers’ photos as singles, others in batches, or however else seems appropriate. A few of these had been. . .
Read MoreWritten by: Bryan Eldredge
Fishing with Bill Reed, Doug Best, and Doug Bear was a real treat. Guides meet people of all kinds of skill and ability, but rarely do you get a chance to spend the day with three anglers as talented these guys. I love teaching novice anglers, but it was sure fun to watch this group just take a river apart. Even better, we got to. . .
Read More
We love to get photos from Orvis News readers, so we can see where they’re fishing and what they’re catching. Several folks have asked how they can submit a photos for a “Picture of the Day” or anything on the Fly Fishing blog. It’s easy, and there are. . .
Read More
After the Outdoor Retailer SummerMarket in Salt Lake City earlier this month, a group of Orvis Regional Business Managers (RBM) headed to Falcon’s Ledge for some. . .uh. . .meetings. Yeah, that’s. . .
Read MoreI got an email from filmmaker Frederik Lorentzen of Inwaders Media yesterday, saying that he had just posted a new video about his summer trip to Lapland for grayling, trout, char, and pike. He definitely undersold it; it’s an often beautiful piece of. . .
Read MoreBlog reader Bob Reece pointed us to this killer video of his trip to the meadow streams and Platte River in the valley of North Park, Colorado. Lots of great underwater shots here of beautiful trout.
Read MoreDang. The folks at Outside Bend Productions have been busy. Not only do they get a video in last week’s Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, but they follow it up with another killer production on Sunday night. This one answers the question: When stuck in a hotel room during a business trip to Los Angeles, what does a city-bound fly fisher dream of? Home waters, of course.
Read More
Guide Mike Steiner of the Nemacolin Field Club sent me some photos of recent fish from the Youghiogheny River in southwestern Pennsylvania, along with a note: . . .
Read MoreWritten by: Mark Schaller, Orvis San Jose
Fellow Orvis sales associate Jack Golan and I ventured out of the shop last week to scout a new section of water, which we suspected, might hold some big trout. We had picked up some nice fish on a smaller, more easily accessed part of this river earlier in the year and hoped the more. . .
Read MoreWritten by: Robert Daniel
The 28-inch brown in the picture was actually caught when I was carp fishing! It was the last day of the week-long Sweetwater Guide School on the Bighorn River in Montana. I—as well as two other students and Ron Meek, who runs the guide school—had decided to fish for carp in the reservoir above the dam on the Bighorn. We were catching decent carp on cicada dry-fly patterns, and they would take you. . .
Read More