Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. I’m on vacation today, but I couldn’t face the wrath of readers who tuned in at lunchtime for their weekly video fix only to find a blank page. There’s a bunch of great stuff in this week’s collection, including a horror film about the effects of nuclear radiation on one particular slimy. . .
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Tuesday Tip: How to Set the Hook and Fight a Fish
Welcome to another installment of “Ask an Orvis Fly-Fishing Instructor,” with me, Peter Kutzer. In this episode, I demonstrate how to correctly set the hook when you’re fishing for trout and other small fish and when you’re stripping a fly for saltwater species or freshwater big game. The way you set the hook makes a huge difference in your success rate, so knowing the correct . . .
Read MoreFriday Film Festival 06.15.12
Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection bounces around the globe, covering all the continents, except for Antarctica. (If anyone knows of a fly-fishing video from Antarctica, please let me know.) There’s a good amount of saltwater action, with plenty of airborne tarpon, as well as some pretty sketchy dead-of-night. . .
Read MoreFriday Film Festival 06.08.12
Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection is an eclectic mix of species and location, but without some of our regular subjects. What makes me particularly happy is the number of small-stream videos, which are my. . .
Read MoreTuesday Tip: How to Make Roll and Switch Casts with a Two-Handed Rod
Welcome to another installment of “Ask an Orvis Fly-Fishing Instructor,” with me, Peter Kutzer. In this episode, I demonstrate how to make three kinds of casts with a two-handed rod. Starting with a simple, static roll cast, we increase the amount of motion, moving to a dynamic roll cast, and then to the more advanced. . .
Read MoreFriday Film Festival 06.01.12
Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection covers a wide variety of species in both fresh and salt water. Unless you’re dead-set on seeing something about stand-up paddleboard Tenkara fishing for bluegills, you’ll find something to. . .
Read MoreFriday Film Festival 05.25.12
Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection is pretty dang salty, with great fly-fishing action of giant-trevally, tarpon, bonefish, and permit anglers. The trevally scenes will blow your mind because of the way the fish seem to explode on the fly, often right at the angler’s feet. Those who prefer their bones golden will find. . .
Read MoreTuesday Tip: How to Make an Aerial Mend
Welcome to another installment of “Ask an Orvis Fly-Fishing Instructor,” with me, Peter Kutzer. In this episode, I demonstrate how to make aerial mends in your line, creating an upstream or downstream mend before your line touches down on the water. This is a great technique for when you’re casting across varying currents, and it will help you achieve better and longer. . .
Read MoreFriday Film Festival 05.18.12
Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing footage available. This week’s collection is very “tarpony,” for all you saltwater lovers out there. But we’ve also got some killer trout-fishing films, too, with all but one from North America. After such heavy doeses of Europe in recent months, this seems like Old Home Day. Sure, we start off with some Slovenian beauty footage, but after that, . . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Make a Tuck Cast
Welcome to another installment of “Ask an Orvis Fly-Fishing Instructor,” with me, Peter Kutzer. In this episode, I demonstrate how to make a tuck cast, which allows you to get your nymphs to the bottom quickly by causing them to hit the water before your fly line does. Tuck casts are great for when you’re fishing nymphs upstream to the head of a pool and you want them to get to the bottom fast so they don’t drift over the heads of your target fish. Because the flies land first, they break right through the surface and head for the. . .
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