Friday Film Festival 05.04.12

Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing...

Video: How to Tie a Crane-Fly Larva

The folks at Tightline...

Tuesday Tip: How to Make a Serpentine Cast

Welcome to another installment of "Ask an Orvis Fly-Fishing Instructor," with me, Peter Kutzer. In this episode, I...

Video: How to Tie an Egg-Laying Grannom Caddis

Before the rains came over the weekend, the hatches of American grannoms (Brachycentrus americanus) on the...

Video: How to Tie the Single-Wing Flatwing

Flatwings are traditional Maine streamers with the wing feather tied in perpendicular to the hook, but I believe it was...

Friday Film Festival 01.20.12

Welcome to another edition of the OrvisNews.com Friday Film Festival, in which we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing...

Video: How to Tie the Leadwing Coachman

The standard story of how the Leadwing Coachman came to be—which sounds apocryphal to me—is that sometime in the...

Tuesday Tip: How to Make a Reach Cast

Welcome to another installment of "Ask an Orvis Fly-Fishing Instructor," with me, Peter Kutzer. In this episode, I...

Video: How to Tie a Multi-Feather Flatwing

Back in February, we featured a video on tying a

Video: How to Tie Vinnie's Isonychia Nymph

Isonychia mayflies, often known as slate-wing or mahogany duns, are prevalent throughout the Eastern United States,...

Video: How to Tie a Catskill-Style Hendrickson

Over the past year or so, we've seen

Tuesday Tip: Parachute and Pile Casts

Welcome to another installment of "Ask an Orvis Fly-Fishing Instructor," with me, Peter Kutzer. In this episode, I explain...

Video of the Day: "We Saved Each Other"

Here's a wonderful film about an Iraq War veteran who struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder and anger issues....

Top 10 Flies for the Southern Rockies

Juan Ramirez grew up in northern New Mexico, fishing the small streams and creeks of the Sangre De Cristos. In 1997, he made...

Giving in to Fly Fishing

Fly Fishing was never on my radar screen until I moved to Vermont and started working for Orvis in the mid 1990s. I worked...

Video: How to Tie the RS2 Midge/Emerger

The RS2 pattern was developed more than 30 years ago by Colorado angler and tier Rim Chung. The name of the fly is short for...

Tuesday Tip: Untangling Leader Knots

Fly fishermen are masters of euphemism when it comes to tangled leaders. “Oh, look. I’ve got a wind knot,”...

Are Atlantic salmon on the way back?

North American anglers often think of Atlantic salmon populations as being in a perpetual state of decline, but higher...

Tom Rosenbauer's Tips for Fishing Emergers

You might be tempted to fish emergers with a subtle twitch. It sometimes works during a caddis hatch or during an emergence...

A Fun Day of Breaking Clays at Orvis Sandanona

Sometimes we can talk about shotguns, chokes, gear, techniques, and tips so much we forget the bottom line about clays...