Mid- to late summer is hopper-dropper time in much of the country, and here’s a great video featuring Trouts Fly Fishing outfitting and education manager, Dave Lovell, who walks you . . .
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Tuesday Tips: 3 Keys to Catching Bass on Topwater Bugs
This chunky largemouth fell for a deer-hair slider, the Umpqua Swim Frog diver.
Photo by Reid Bryant
Catching largemouth bass on surface flies is a lot of fun, but it’s not as easy as you might think. Bass aren’t like northern pike, almost always willing to chase down a big meal. In fact, bass. . .
Read More5 Fly-Fishing Lessons I Learned the Hard Way
One of the great things about fly fishing is that there’s always something new to learn; dedicated anglers will never run out of new techniques, species, waters, or fly patterns to figure out. This very blog is dedicated to helping anglers of every level, from . . .
Read MorePro Tips: Top 5 Topwater Flies for Largemouth Bass
Few things in fly-fishing are as exciting as watching a largemouth bass smash a fly on the surface, and Alvin Dedeaux of All Water Guides gets to watch this spectacle more than most anglers. Based in Austin, Texas, Dedeaux was a 2016 Orvis-Endorsed . . .
Read MoreTom Rosenbauer’s Top Tips for Finding Your Own Small Trout Stream
Discovering a new stream is exciting, whether it pans out or not.
Photo by Phil Monahan
We trout fly fishers yearn for a stream of our own, a place visited by only a few other fly fishers each season, where the tight feeling in your chest when you round the bend to check if. . .
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Using an Indicator Fly
There are few more maddening situations in fly fishing than watching fish gorge themselves right in front you but being unable to catch them because you can’t see your fly. (And for you whippersnappers who can now spy a Trico spinner at 60 feet: rest assured that such acuity won’t. . .
Read MoreVideos: Tons of Tips from Two Euro-Nymphing Masters
Over the past couple of months, we’ve had some great opportunities to learn the basics and beyond about Euro-Nymphing. The episode of the “Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing” with George Daniel was far and away the most . . .
Read MoreOrvis Guide to Euro-Nymphing, Part 5b: Detecting Strikes
In this final installment of our seven-part series on Euro-nymphing, Tom Rosenbauer and George Daniel discuss how you detect strikes with this system. Since you’re fishing with your flies near the bottom, you’ll sometimes catch bottom. But if you’re snagging bottom too often, strike detection becomes more difficult. The sighter serves as both a depth … Continue reading “Orvis Guide to Euro-Nymphing, Part 5b: Detecting Strikes”
Read MoreOrvis Guide to Euro-Nymphing, Part 5a: How to Present Euro-Nymphing Flies
In this installment of our seven-part series on Euro-nymphing, Tom Rosenbauer and George Daniel discuss line control and presentation. George notes that it’s all about the hips and shoulders, rather that the arm. If the . . .
Read MoreOrvis Guide to Euro-Nymphing, Part 4: How to Cast a Euro-Nymphing Rig
In this installment of our seven-part series on Euro-nymphing, Tom Rosenbauer and George Daniel focus on casting. Because you are not using much fly line, your goal is to fling the weight of the flies in a stealthy way. George . . .
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