A few years ago, Pete Kutzer made a short and sweet video about how to make a tuck cast, which taught just the basic casting motion. In the video above, Brian Flechsig of Mad River Outfitters goes into waaaay more depth and detail, offering . . .
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Stream to Salt VIII: What to Do When the Fish Aren’t Here . . . Yet.
While much of this series has emphasized the benefit of covering water in order to find fish, in reality, not every angler has the time and the ability to get out and explore a large area. Sometimes, your options are between. . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: 5 Tips for Euro-Nymphing Technical Tailwaters
Tailwater fisheries are among the most productive–and most challenging–options available to trout anglers. Their trademark mix of clear water and big, educated fish makes it easy to spot trout, yet hard to catch them, a. . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: The Rule of Small
When you’re fishing clear water in times of prolonged drought, trout are very likely to have seen pressure. Typically, anglers use larger flies that cause enough surface disturbance that trout . . .
Read MoreClassic Pro Tip: How to Tie the Nail-less Nail Knot
Here’s a great demonstration of how to tie a nail knot when you don’t have a special tool or an actual nail. This comes in handy when you have to attach a leader to a fly line on the water. This isn’t a knot you’ll use every day, but when you need it, . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Make a Circle-Spey Cast
Here’s the latest in a series of quick-and-dirty fly-casting videos I made with Pete Kutzer of the Orvis Fly Fishing Schools. Here, he demonstrates how to make a Circle-Spey Cast, which is . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: How to Retrieve Streamers, Wet Flies, and Nymphs in Still Water
When rivers are blown out from runoff or rain, lakes and ponds offer some of your best chances to catch trout. Many anglers think that stillwater fishing involves little more than chucking a fly out . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tips: 3 Ways to Improve your Double-Haul
A crisp double-haul will open more fly angling “doors” than any other casting skill, expanding the pool of options to include saltwater and stillwater fishing, among others. That’s why so many anglers are eager to master it,. . .
Read MorePro Tips: How to Make the Most of Your Bank Shots
By William G. Tapply
Stalking the banks can often produce surprisingly large trout.
Photo by Phil Monahan
Bill Rohrbacher and I picked our lunch site for the shade of the lonely cottonwood, the gurgle of the river, and the upstream view. The brown-and-yellow Montana plains rolled off to distant . . .
Read MoreVideo: Understanding Different Kinds of Bucktail Hair
Many patterns call for bucktail hair, but you need to know your way around the bucktail itself to choose the kind of hair right for each application. Tim explains the differences among hair from the top third, middle, and bottom third of the tail, and he . . .
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