Many dry-fly imitations of terrestrials and stoneflies feature foam bodies created by stacking different color foam. Here. Tim demonstrates his method for creating these multi-layer . . .
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Video: How to Control Difficult Materials with the Anchor-and-Twist Dubbing Method
Some dubbing materials don’t want to stay on the thread, or they get unruly and unmanageable when you wrap the dubbing noodle on the hook shank. It’s frustrating to end up with a shapeless blob, when . . .
Read MoreFriday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 03.19.21
Welcome to an all new edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival! Every week, we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available and then serve them up for you to enjoy. This week, we’ve got . . .
Read MorePodcast: Norway’s Jazz and Fly Fishing, with Håvard Stubø
This week my guest is Håvard Stubø of Jazz and Fly Fishing. If you have not enjoyed one of their videos, it’s a group of jazz musicians who also love fly fishing and decided to make some videos of their exploits. We . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the EZ Bunny Leech
Here’s another “guide-fly” lesson from Alvin Dedeaux of All Water Guides. (Or, as he calls them, “super easy to tie, down and dirty, quick and easy, fish-catching guide flies.”) Guides don’t want to use flies that are complicated . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Whip Finish with Finesse
Once you get the hang of it, whip-finishing is not difficult–whether you use a tool or your fingers. However, there’s more to a good whip-finish than simply wrapping thread over itself. As Tim demonstrates, for a . . .
Read MoreFriday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 02.12.21
Welcome to the latest edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available and then serve them up for you to enjoy. This week, we serve up . . .
Read MoreGuide Tips: How to Fish Wet Flies More Effectively
Wet flies are probably the least-used style of flies today, even though they have proven their effectiveness over hundreds of years. Here’s a great video from The New Fly Fisher in which guide Rob Heal demonstrates some of . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie Bastian’s Floating Caddis Emerger
Today, I learned of the passing of well-known Pennsylvania fly tier Don Bastian, who was known especially for his work to re-popularize wet flies. Anglers outside the Northeast may be familiar with Bastian for his . . .
Read MoreVideo Tips About Fly Fishing & Fashion
was telling a friend last night about the weird and wonderful English graphic designer and fanatical angler Steve Edge, and I was reminded of his funny fly-fishing videos from a few years back. He may not look like anyone . . .
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