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Photo of the week – boat trip time
If you’ve never floated and fished a river, get on it. It is a great way to see a large chunk of a river and explore the ecosystem on a larger scale. Day-long floats are great, but if you truly want to get away, then book a weeklong adventure through the heart of some of…
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Photo of the week – campfire cooking
While we don’t often kill the fish we love, when backpacking into a small stream, there are times when trout is on the menu. Stuffed with onions and garlic and spread with butter, it’s hard to beat a streamside meal like this.
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TROUT Tip – gear busting
It’s critical to trust your gear, but rods can occasionally break while fighting a fish. (Although it is much more common for rods to break in car doors, ceiling fans or by feet when on the ground). Learn what kind of pressure your rod can take when fighting a fish with this latest video from…
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Photo of the week – eyes locked, back sore
It’s incredible the contortionists we become while fishing. We clench our jaws, hunch our shoulders, twist our torsos at odd angles, all to fool a creature with a brain the size of a pea. But with sore backs, side aches and more, our eyes never lose their lock on that juicy looking run, riffle, pool…
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TROUT Tip – undercut banks
The winding nature of small streams often creates undercut banks, which make an ideal habitat for trout. They are hidden and protected while lazily gorging on flies drifting nearby. To try your hand at catching these wily trout in tough lies like undercut banks, watch this video for tips. See All Orvis Learning Center Videos
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Photo of the Week – smiles for miles
Salmonflies. Photo by Odin Bercu It’s hard not to smile when you’re fly fishing a favorite river with your friends, but when bugs start hatching, those smiles turn even bigger. We hope you get plenty of chances to flex your smile muscles this summer.
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TROUT Tip – downstream takes
Watch these tips from Orvis on how to properly set the hook for a downstream take.
Here’s the scenario: You see a trout rising continuously just across a slight current near the far bank; it’s eating bugs that are drifting towards it from the upstream foam line; you cast and it turns to follow your fly downstream; it takes and you set the hook, but it doesn’t stick. Ugh. We’ve all…
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