Mending is such an important part of achieving a good dead drift that we have posted about many times here on the Orvis News Fly Fishing blog. (See here and here, for instance.) One of the . . .
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Classic Pro Tip: Keep Your Fly In the Water
Your chances of catching a gorgeous trout like this increase the longer your fly is in the strike zone.
Photo by Shawn Combs
There’s an old saying among anglers: You can’t catch fish if your line isn’t in the water. I believe that this is one of the reasons that the less avid angler often outfished their more-experienced partner on float trips when I guided on the Yellowstone and in . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tip: How to Fish Around Rocks and Logs
In this excerpt from the Orvis Fly Fishing Learning Center, Tom Rosenbauer explains why fish are found in front of midstream rocks and logs as often as they are found behind such . . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tip: Learning by Watching Trout Rises
Most of us are in prime dry-fly season now, so enjoy it while you can (or after runoff ends, depending on where you are). You can learn a lot about how to present your fly by watching rises for a few minutes before jumping right in with a cast. And . . .
Read MorePro Tips: 3 Ways to Improve Your Approach
Approaching trout with care is one of the easiest aspects of fly-fishing to get right, yet it’s also one of the most commonly neglected. The fact that novices can’t often see the trout gives them a false sense of security that. . .
Read MoreVideo Pro Tip: How to Get a Good Turnover at the End of the Cast
Here’s the second in our new series of quick-and-dirty casting-instruction videos featuring Pete Kutzer of the Orvis Fly Fishing Schools. Here, Pete explains how to get the end of your . . .
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: How to Make Accurate Casts at Longer Distances
Here’s the latest video in our series featuring Pete Kutzer of the Orvis Fly Fishing Schools, in which he offers some important tips for maintaining accuracy at longer distances. When you’re casting . . .
Read MoreTuesday Tip: Using an Indicator Fly
There are few more maddening situations in fly fishing than watching fish gorge themselves right in front you but being unable to catch them because you can’t see your fly. (And for you whippersnappers who can now spy a Trico spinner at 60 feet: rest assured that such acuity won’t. . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Fish Streamers, with Tom Rosenbauer
Here’s the latest full episode of “The Orvis Guide to Fly Fishing,” in which Tom Rosenbauer offers tips and tactics for fishing streamers for trout and warmwater species. Tom explains in great. . .
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