It’s a beautiful time of year on the Lake Erie tributaries. The leaves have turned, the light shimmers on the rocks as the water distorts its reflections, and there is no one out on the streams! Low, clear water can scare many anglers away, . . .
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Classic Pro Tips: 10 Tips for Fall Streamer Fishing
It’s the season to get into some really big wild brown trout. They are setting up for the spawn right now, and this is some of my favorite fishing of the entire year. If you do things right, you could land the biggest trout of your life, . . .
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 MoreLearn to Fish Indicators and Dry-Dropper Rigs
Last month, we relaunched the Orvis Fly Fishing Learning Center, featuring an all-new design and the first chapter of new content, on Euro Nymphing. For 13 weeks, we will be adding a new chapter to the Learning Center each . . .
Read MoreTom Rosenbauer’s 11 Tips for Hot Feeder-Stream Fishing
Don’t ignore the small feeder streams that empty into better-known waters.
Photo by Buzz Cox
A few summers ago, I spent two days at Orvis-endorsed Madison Valley Ranch in Ennis, Montana. Manager Chris Eaton took me on a great short float through the Channels section of the lower Madison and showed me just how much I have to learn about fly fishing this river, even after fishing it for 25 years. I think I caught one fish for every ten he. . .
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 Pro Tip: How to Fish Around Rocks and Logs
The “cushion” of water in front of a midstream rock is good holding water for trout.
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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: Finding Cheap, Fun Fly Fishing Close to Home
While you’re sitting in your office dreaming about Montana or New Zealand, there are probably a dozen places to fly fish nearby. In this great video from the Orvis Fly Fishing Learning Center, . . .
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Video 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 . . .
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