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  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: Edit your water

    One of the biggest challenges for new fly fishers is learning water, understanding where trout might hold and approaching water with a solid fishing strategy. Trout Tips | Edit your water from Trout Unlimited on Vimeo. Above, Russ Miller of Fishpond does a great job describing how to approach a classic meadow stream, and offers…

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    Trout Tips: Preparing for a new season

    Russ Miller of Fishpond joins Trout Tips this spring to offer some great advice on getting ready for the summer ahead. And the first thing Miller recommends is checking your gear as you prepare to head to the water. Trout Tips | Preparing for a new season from Trout Unlimited on Vimeo. As Miller notes,…

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: De-boning a trout

    While most trout anglers these days practice catch-and-release, there are instances where keeping a trout or two for dinner is perfectly acceptable, and, in some cases, good for the river or stream (a non-native rainbow trout in a cutthroat trout stream, for instance). But even when we keep trout for the occasional meal, it's incumbent…

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    Trout Tips: The ‘worm’

    We've all grown out of fishing with worms, right? Well, maybe we shouldn't have, especially when this time of year rolls around and runoff strikes, sending a winter's worth of snow down our rivers in a murky torrent. When high water hits and scours riverbanks, worms that dwell in the earth often find themselves waterborne,…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: McKenna’s Rumble Bug

    Sometimes, flies just work, and there's no real explanation as to why. Take the Royal Coachman, for instance. It doesn't imitate any one hatching insect, yet with its peacock herl body broken by red floss, it seems to work often enough that trout recognize it as food. I think the same thing can be said…

  • Fishing Fly tying

    Fly tying: The pinch wrap

    Sometimes, we take the little things for granted. As a long-time (but hardly accomplished) fly tier, I've incorporated a few of the basic tying tactics into just about every fly I produce at the vise. Video of How to do a Pinch WrapAs you'll see above in this great little Orvis video, Tim Flagler demonstrates…

  • Fishing Trout Tips

    Trout Tips: Skate the fly

    This little small-stream rainbow gobbled up a skated caddis. Ah, the dry fly, cast upstream over the perfect current seam. Is there a better sight in all of fly fishing?And when it works out ... Damn, it 's awesome. It's inspiring, effective and, well, it's proper. But things don't always line up just right, do…