Pro Tips: How to Rig for Jigging Streamers

In cold water, trout are often less aggressive and therefore less likely to chase down a streamer stripped quickly across the current. This is a great time to jig streamers instead, and George Daniel of Livin’ on the Fly has spent a lot of . . .

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Video: Tom Rosenbauer in The DSP Slush Slam

The Grand Slam is one of the most challenging scenarios that a fly angler can achieve. Traditionally, in the world of flats fishing, to pull off a Grand Slam requires that the angler catches a tarpon, permit, and bonefish in a single day. Anyone who has . . .

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Video: A River Out of Time

The Colorado River basin is the lifeline for much of the American West, and it includes some iconic fly-fishing waters, such as the Green and the Yampa. But years of drought, climate change, and misuse threaten the river’s health, which jeopardizes the . . .

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Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival 01.06.23

Welcome to our first edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival for 2023! Each week, we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available, and curate them for you. Today, we’ve got an . . .

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Classic Video: Bulls on Top

You might want to close your office door before watching this, or your shouts of “Whoa!” and “Holy *#%$!” might bother your coworkers. Guide David Mangum has put together some. . .

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Video Pro Tips: How to Make an Overhead Mend

Winter is a great time to work on your technical nymphing game. Using smaller flies and thinner tippets can create multiple challenges, not the least of which is getting a size 20 nymph down into the strike zone–and keeping it. . .

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Video Pro Tips: How Do Trout See, Hear, and Smell?

The topic of how a trout’s senses should inform the way we fish for them is common among anglers, and this video does a great job offering a primer on how a trout experiences its surroundings. Once you understand all the . . .

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Video: How to Tie the Adams Bugger

It sometimes seems as if there is no end to variations on the Woolly Bugger, and for good reason: they work. Previously, Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions taught us how to . . .

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