Tom Travis is a legendary guide and fly tier from Livingston, Montana, where he specializes in fishing the spring creeks of Paradise Valley and the rivers of Yellowstone National Park. As a guide, you want to use patterns that . . .
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Video: Understanding Shanks
More and more streamer patterns are being tied using shanks, which allow for extended-body and articulated flies. Tim explains the differences among the three main types of shanks–Waddington, Intruder, and articulated. The . . .
Read MoreFriday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 08.14.20
Welcome to an all-new edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available. This week, we present a dozen videos that are all about summertime (or winter, in . . .
Read MoreVideo: Tom Rosenbauer and Joel Johnson discuss Diversity in Fly Fishing
Last week, Tom had a great discussion with Joel Johnson about these issues, and we think you will find it extremely illuminating. Johnson runs an advertising agency called Admirable Devil–which has worked with many . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie a Better Woolly Bugger
The Woolly Bugger has been around since the 1960s, and I doubt that there’s a single trout angler who doesn’t have a few Buggers in his fly box. But that doesn’t mean they’re as well-tied as they could be. Whether . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Fish Rock Shelves in a River
Today’s Master Class Monday video by Dave and Amelia Jensen is the final installment in a series on how to read trout water. Here, Dave talks about those stretches of river where the water flows over bare rock, in the form of shelves . . .
Read MoreFriday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 07.17.20
Welcome to an all-new edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available. This week we’ve got ten great productions–nine from . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Last Chance Purple Haze
Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions has already shown us how to tie two versions of the Purple Haze dry fly–here and here–and now he’s back with a really cool cripple/emerger version that looks super buggy. To a . . .
Read MoreVideo: Advanced Stillwater Fly Fishing, with Tom Rosenbauer
The thirteenth and final episode of Season 2 of the “Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing” TV show is now up, and it’s all about fishing lakes and ponds. This time of year, many of our rivers and streams are running low and . . .
Read MoreMaster Class Monday: How to Fish Featureless Water
Today’s Master Class Monday video by Dave and Amelia Jensen is the ninth installment in a series on how to read trout water. Here, Dave talks about those stretches of river that don’t seem to reveal any obvious . . .
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