In this excerpt from the Orvis Fly Fishing Learning Center, Tom Rosenbauer discusses where you should focus your attention when you’re looking for salmon or steelhead in a river. It’s. . .
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Action Alert: Help Protect Olympic Peninsula Steelhead RIGHT NOW!
e’re sorry for the last-minute request, but if we want to fix the failing status quo and prevent our fisheries from closing completely, we could really use your help TODAY, before at 1 p.m. PST. In short, new regulations have . . .
Read MorePodcast: How to Catch Great Lakes Pacific Salmon, with Trent Jackson
I get frequent questions about targeting introduced Pacific salmon in the Great Lakes region, so I invited an expert to give us guidance on where and when to fish for them, tackle to use, and recommended flies. Trent Jackson, . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Douglas Salmon Camp Swinger
‘Tis the season for swinging flies to tempt salmon and steelhead throughout the country, whether you live in the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, or the Northeast. Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions recently spent time . . .
Read MorePodcast: Talking Salmon (and other fish) with Mark Kurlansky
This week, I have the pleasure of interviewing one of my very favorite non-fiction writers, Mark Kurlansky. Author of such award-winning books as Cod, Salt, Paper, 1968, and A Continent of Islands, Mark is a tireless journalist who digs into the very . . .
Read MorePodcast: Secrets of the Salmon River
New York State’s Salmon River is one of those places you either love or hate —and some of us love and hate it at the same time. It’s an amazing resource, with large quantities of high-quality steelhead and salmon that are often . . .
Read MoreAction Alert: Help Protect the Trout, Salmon, and Steelhead of Oregon’s Nehalem River Watershed
Written by: Tracy Nguyen-Chung
The Nehalem River could use even more protection than that proposed by the State of Oregon.
Photo by Tracy Nguyen-Chung
Oregon’s North Coast is an incomparable wonder, and home to the Nehalem River. (Nehalim is Salish for “place where people live.”) Lush forests, a sweeping coastal estuary, and miles of . . .
Read MoreWatch “Frontera Norte” for FREE for the Next 48 Hours
As part of a monthlong celebration of the first public release of the fly fishing film “Corazón”–the final of three films that make up “The Scorpion Trilogy”–Off the Grid Studios and Orvis are showing . . .
Read MoreTop 10 Flies for Oregon’s North Coast
Written by: Ethan Barrow, Adventures Across Oregon
There are lots of opportunities within striking distance of Portland.
Photos courtesy Adventures Across Oregon
When the vast majority of fly fishing destinations in the northern hemisphere are dealing with intense cold and/or snow, the watersheds in close proximity to Portland, Oregon are oftentimes. . .
Read MoreVideo: Restoring the Skagit River’s Barnaby Slough
In 2011, the Wild Steelhead Coalition teamed up with the Skagit River System Cooperative and Orvis to use drone technology to map out and survey a critical habitat-restoration project on. . .
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