Welcome to the latest edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival! Each week, we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available and then serve them up for you to enjoy. This was a bit of a light week, so we’re serving up nine killer videos, three of which are classics from…
Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions first taught us to tie a Pine Squirrel Streamer almost a dozen years ago, and since then, he’s demonstrated two more complicated versions: the Pine Squirrel Trout Spey Streamer and the Balanced Pine Squirrel Streamer. Lately, he’s been focusing on “Guide-Style Flies,” patterns that are quick and easy to tie…
Written by: Patrick Blackdale, Willowfly Anglers Protecting a trout after you’ve brought it to the next can help ensure that it survives to fight another day.Photos by Patrick Blackdale Few things are more exciting that catching a big fish, but it’s important that you keep your head at the point when that fish is most…
(embed)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GogY7s8diks(/embed) Here’s the latest installment our series “One-Minute Fly-Tying Tips and Techniques” from Tim Flagler of Tightline Productions. Each video teaches a single tying skill, from the most basic to the advanced. Ultimately, the series will serve as a sort of encyclopedia of tying skills that will be a valuable resource for anyone who sits down…
Written by: Philip MonahanPhotography: Charles Hildick-Smith A stunning wild brook trout caught just a few minutes from Libby Camps. Libby Camps is woven into the fabric of the region’s storied sporting history. We were about four hours into an all-day hike, fishing our way upstream on a gorgeous brook-trout and landlocked-salmon river in a remote…
(embed)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HX_kNZd5bE(/embed) When you are working your way upstream, casting a nymph rig to the riffle or run in front of you. It’s easy to forget about the water below you. You’ve already fished it, right? But you may be surprised to find fish willing to feed in this water, after just a few minutes’ rest.…
(embed)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjrYYJ4GdMU(/embed) Here’s a great hour-long primer in which Tom Rosenbauer, with some help from Pete Kutzer, explains the ins and outs of fishing tandem rigs. Fishing two flies at once is intimidating for some anglers, who may not be quite sure how to rig, cast, or drift these setups. Tom starts off running through nymphing…
Welcome to the latest edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival! Each 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 a dozen videos to get you stoked for the weekend, including a metal banger that you can…
(embed)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qafCab7oDw4(/embed) Anglers talk a lot about “the fish behind that rock,” but too many of us overlook the trout lie in front of that rock. In this great video from The New Fly Fisher, Colin McKeown explains why fish will hold in the hydro cushion or “pillow” on the upstream side of an obstruction. There…
In our weekly fly-tying videos from Tightline Productions, Tim Flagler demonstrates the best way to tie a specific pattern teaching us useful skills that make us better tiers overall. This week, however, he’s switched to “down and dirty” mode to show how he ties a guide-fly version of the legendary Pat’s Rubberlegs. Simple, fast, and…