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Video spotlight: How to save the day on a trout river
Below, in the Orvis video narrated by Dave Jensen, is a great story. And it's a familiar one. Almost exactly two years ago, I was fishing what the locals had described to me as a great little grayling stream in eastern Alaska. This deep, slow channel that connected a network of ponds and lakes just…
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Voices from the river: The Holy Trinity
Angler on California's Trinity River. By Sam Davidson Every year, when the perseid meteor shower flings sparks across the night skies, I start thinking about fishing the Trinity River. The “Holy Trinity” is one of the best salmon and steelhead streams in California, and perhaps the Lower 48. In August summer run steelhead are in…
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Video spotlight: Mend
The next time you're on the river to escape the rest of your manic life, stop for a minute and consider how lucky you really are. Chances are, if you're reading this, you're healthy. You might have healthy kids, a good job ... a car that runs. You might have challenges, but I'd be willing…
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Video spotlight: Trout Heaven
Imagine that perfect, pastoral trout stream where native fish with nary a care rise to mayflies all day long. Just in your dreams? Perhaps your idea of Heaven? Video of Trout HeavenWe should all be so lucky to be able to cast over wild, native brown trout in a sweet little southern Sweden River after…
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Video spotlight: Rio Grande Argentina
Oh, this is going to be good. If you're a fan of fish porn at its most visceral, the trailer below to Todd Moen's new film about fly fishing the Argentina stretch of Tierra de Fuego's Rio Grande River ought to have you foaming at the mouth. This is perhaps the best destination fishery in…
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Video spotlight: Biot horns or wings
This latest installment of the Orvis fly-tying series featuring Tim Flagler covers biots used as "horns" or wings, like in a Prince nymph. Tim has covered the basics of biots and the use of biots for tails in past videos—this one just rounds it out for you. Video of Biot Basics - Biot Horns or…
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Video spotlight: Biot tails
Biots used in fly tying are often tough to handle. As Tim Flagler notes in the video below, they're slippery and not always cooperative. But biots make good flies great—can you imagine a really good Prince nymph without a goose biot tail? Video of Biot Basics - Biot TailsAbove, Tim offers up a really handy…