(embed)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmgtonIMD5w(/embed) Welcome to the latest edition of the Wednesday Wake-Up Call, a roundup of the most pressing conservation issues important to anglers. Working with our friends at Unlimited trout, Backcountry hunters and anglersThe Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, The Everglades Foundation, Clean water captains, VoteWater.orgAnd Conservation Falcon (among other things) we make sure you have the…
By midsummer, most of the best insect hatches are gone – especially in the East and Midwest – but dry fly anglers can still look forward to tricos. These tiny mayflies can perform excellent actions, but it is difficult to spot such tiny flies on the surface, especially in low light conditions. In this week’s…
Written by Tom Rosenbauer The 9 weight has enough backbone to take on big strippers trying to harness the flow of a strong current. Arguably the most popular saltwater or big game rod in the Orvis range, this is a 9 foot, 8 weight rod. But I honestly think a lot of anglers don’t arm…
(embed)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mg5XIZ3Qi0(/embed) Patterns with large pieces of foam – Locusts, Chubby Chernobyls, and the like – pose a challenge for tiers: the foam wants to twist around the hook shank. In this week’s one minute tying tips video by Tightline productionsTim Flagler teaches you how to hold the foam in place using a series of counter-wraps.…
This chunky trout mouth fell in love with a deer hair slider, the Umpqua Swim Frog diver.Photo by Reid Bryant Catching largemouth bass with surface flies is great fun, but it’s not as easy as you might think. Perch are not like pike and are almost always ready for a large meal. In fact, bass…
Schroeder’s parachutist If you think terrestrial imitations are only for summer fishing, then you’re missing out on a lot of the dry fly action. The normal thought is that trout ignore land-bred insects in spring and early summer until hatchlings of mayflies and caddis flies become fewer with the heat of summer. They ignore earthlings…
(embed)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoR3Mx3sRvs(/embed) One of the best things about fishing in the summer is that you can often cast dry flies all day long. When working a stretch of river, you can alternate casting upstream to cover the head of a pool and casting downstream to propel your fly through deeper water or the tailout. In this…
(embed)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmgtonIMD5w(/embed) If you’ve read our regular Wednesday wake-up call posts, you’re probably familiar with the challenges facing Montana’s Big Hole watershed and the efforts of our partners at Big Hole Lodge to find solutions. Wade Fellin recently directed this video to talk about how the relationship between Orvis and BHL came about and what it…
In last week’s One Minute Tying Tips video, Tim Flagler from of Tightline productions showed you how useful it can be to prepare all your materials by type of production stages before tying multiple flies with the same pattern. Here Tim demonstrates in real time how it works. He binds a Chubby Chernobyl from start…
(Interview starts at 40:38) Since we’re out in nature all day, it makes sense that creek anglers would be interested in foraging. But even though we look out for fish, insects, and birds, many of us ignore them Plant. And along the trout streams there are plenty of delicious plants to take home for dinner…