Here’s a cool short video, from the famed Mataura River, that starts with a little bit of bad luck (and some attendant bad language). But things turn. . .
Read MoreVideo: “Fisherman’s Friends” on New Zealand’s Mataura River
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Photos of the Day: Easter Sunday Float Trip
Written by: Jeremy Kehrein, Orvis Adventures
Orvis’s Reed Kennedy took the first trout just twenty minutes into the float.
Photo by Jeremy Kehrein
It has been a week since trout season opened in Vermont. Unfortunately, we have endured rain, snow, high water, and cold air temps since Opening Day. There hasn’t been much bug activity as of yet, but some of us. . .
Read MoreVideo: Gardening for Huge New Zealand Browns
Those who follow the Orvis Fly Fishing facebook page got a chance to see Dave Jensen engage in an epic battle with a New Zealand trout that kept hiding under cutbanks. Here’s another beauty that. . .
Read MorePhotos of the Day: Pre-Season Guide’s Day Out
Written by: Alicia White, Firehole Ranch
Guides like to do some fishing of their own before the real season starts and they just get to watch.
Photo courtesy Ryan Tomczyk
This is the time of year when guides have more time to fish before they are consumed with guiding, and the guys from Firehole Ranch are making the most of it! They are also loving. . .
Read MoreVideo: The SA Crew Takes on Montana
After attending the 2014 Orvis Guide Rendezvous, a bunch of our pals from Scientific Anglers did some serious driving and fishing around Big Sky Country. Here’s a travelogue featuring some locations you may recognize, some gorgeous. . .
Read MoreVideo: Behind the Scenes of “Tributaries,” a Fly-Fishing Film
Last July, we introduced you to a film project by RC Cone called “Tributaries.” Cone described the project as “a journey to uncover the commonality among different cultures, people and. . .
Read MorePhoto of the Day: Boys on the Road for Huge Trout
Written by: Will Lillard, Lillard Fly Fishing Expeditions
Connor (right) helped his buddy Brendan land this gorgeous brown trout on Arkansas’s Dry Run Creek.
Photo courtesy Lillard Fly Fishing Expeditions
Last summer, during our North Carolina Blue Ridge Fly Fishing Camp, Connor caught his first trout over twenty inches. I helped him land the fish, and then told him that if he ever got. . .
Read MoreVideo: “Oh My God!” A Fly-Fishing Nightmare
Last Saturday night’s 2nd Annual Orvis Film Fest—which capped off the Down the Hatch Fishing Festival in Missoula, Montana—closed with this video, which brought down the house. The video follows the trials and. . .
Read MoreVideo: A Spring Day in Cheeseman Canyon
Max Rhulen is a young man from Colorado who obviously loves being outdoors, whether he’s mountain biking, skiing, hunting, or fly fishing. In this video, he and a friend head. . .
Read MorePhotos: OGR14 Adventure Day Two, Broken on the Bitterroot
The armory was well stocked for a float trip.
All photos by Phil Monahan
Day Two in Montana for the 2014 Orvis Guide Rendezvous dawned bright and cold on Rock Creek, where I was staying with my friends Tim and Lisa Savard. Although he had missed out on. . .
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