Author

Chris Hunt

  • Video spotlight

    Video spotlight: Detecting the grab

    Steelhead season is well under way up and down the West Coast, but here in Idaho, on the Salmon River, the season is on a bit of an unofficial hiatus until March or April. The Salmon is a legitimate steelhead hotspot all throughout the fall, but by the time late December and January come around,…

  • Getting the kids involved

    Tenkara at work: the author's daughter with a nice native cutthroat trout. I was "that parent" a while back. I tried to foist fly fishing on my kids when they were just too young. I had converted from spin fishing to fly fishing by the time I was in my late teens and early 20s,…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: Improved BWO Sparkle Dun

    Blue-winged Olives might be the fly fisher's best friend in the mayfly world. No, they're not big. They're not terribly enticing to tie a the vise. But, damn, on any blustery day, they could show up and quickly move up the menu for feeding trout. I love to fish the South Fork of the Snake…

  • Skills: The Davy Knot

    Small flies can be tough to tie on to tippet streamside using some of the more traditional knots, like the improved clinch knot, simply because, when completed, the knot is too big. I started using the Davy knot as a substitute for small flies a few years back, and I've never had one fail in…

  • Skills: How to make a roll cast

    A lot of folks consider the roll cast to be "advanced" fly fishing. It's not. And it's not hard to learn, perfect and perform on a regular basis. But, as RIO Product's Brand Manager Simon Gawesworth notes in the video below, it does require some explaining. Just like any cast in fly fishing, there is…