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TROUT Tying Tip – get started tying
To get to the fun stuff of tying actual flies sooner, here are a few videos to get you started tying. This week, Tim shows how to load the thread, get it started on the hook, and how to finish a fly with a whip finishing tool. Practicing all these skills before playing with tying…
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TROUT Tip – tying thread sizes
If a fly tying setup was on your Christmas wish list and Santa came through, we’re going to walk you through the basics over the coming weeks to help you get started. This week, watch as Tim Flagler in partnership with Orvis explains fly tying thread sizes, how to know what the sizing means and…
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TROUT Tip – prep for tying flies
We’re starting to share a series of fly tying tips to get us through the winter months. Orvis partnered with renowned fly tyer, Tim Flagler, to create some short video tips. Check out this week’s on an important tip before you even sit at the tying bench. See All Orvis Learning Center Fly Tying Videos
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Choosing to keep lead out of the environs we fish
Lead can poison loons and eagles, but we can choose fly tying alternatives. “I fish mainly because I love the environs where trout are found,” wrote Robert Traver in the preface to his classic book, Trout Madness. The passage came to mind this summer as I paddled my canoe across the lake back to my…
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Battenkill Fly Fishing Festival
The Battenkill Fly Fishing Festival is making its return after a successful debut last spring. Held in Arlington, Vt., April 27-30, the show features how-to seminars by some of the fly fishing’s most respected experts, the International Fly Fishing Film Festival, music and a full slate of social events The show will also provide insight…
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Tie One On: Equinox Caddis a triple threat for fall
The Equinox Caddis is my go-to fly to fish when October Caddis are hatching. I designed this fly to solve a couple of problems. To effectively imitate an October Caddis, your fly should ride low, but this is often at the expense of buoyancy. Furthermore, the cold weather that brings on the October Caddis hatch…
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Tie One On: Rickety Cricket
Here’s a fly to tie before you hit the new Gold Medal stretch of the Colorado TU is helping create. This week in Colorado, TU celebrated the groundbreaking of a project that will reconnect a section of the upper Colorado River and, in a few short years, open up a new section of Gold Medal…
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