Video: Fly-Fishing the High Alps 2

Here’s a cool video shot on the Durance, Guisane, and Cerveyrette Rivers in the French Alps, near the Italian border. This is some serious fastwater fishing, and the quarry are the “striped trout” of the Mediterranean watersheds. You’ll also see one of the. . .

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Video: Hardcore Mousing on the Delaware with Joe D

When you think Catskills, you think slender, sparse dry flies and delicate presentations. So what happenes when a couple of guys decided to throw only mice for a couple of days? Check out this cool video, featuring. . .

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Video: Meanwhile Upstream, Episode I

Here’s the latest video from our old friend Rolf Nylinder of FrontsideFly, and it’s got all the features we’ve come to expect from the Swedish Wunderkind: a good dose of humor, great footage of rising trout, camaraderie, and. . .

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Photos: Back to the Beaverkill for Brown Trout

Written by: Jerry Plaaten


The author and his friend discovered that the Beaverkill still fishes as well as they remembered.
Photo courtesy Jerry Plaaten

My friend Bill Gunn and I are displaced Connecticut natives now bogged down in Florida. Our first love is still trout fishing, and we have been making yearly pilgrimages northward. Last year, rather than going to Pennsylvania, I suggested that we go back to. . .

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Video: Taking a Chance in New Zealand

This is a long one, at just under 30 minutes, but there is a ton of great action and plenty of huge trout. Guide Mike Kirkpatrick and his client, Kresten Ovesen, head into the backcountry of New Zealand’s South Island in. . .

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Photos of the Day: Getting Hexed on the Boardman River

Written by: Ben Brown, Orvis Streamside


Fly-fishing in the dark has its drawbacks, but the rewards can be spectacular.
All photos courtesy Ben Brown

The Hex hatch has been producing large fish on the Boardman River, and these photos show some of the great browns we’ve been catching. The top photo shows two fish that my friend, Thane Herbert, and I caught on the Fourth of July. Thane is. . .

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