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Video spotlight: How to water haul
Throwing big streamers, heavy "hopper-dropper" rigs or multiple-nymph rigs can be a bear to cast. While a traditional cast can work, anglers open themselves up to potential errors—and potential tangles—if they're not very careful casting these rigs. Video of Fly Casting | How to Water Haul Above, Pete Kutzer of Orvis demonstrates a super-simple method…
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Trout Tips: The Mirror Effect
Editor's note: The following is exerpted from TU's book, "Trout Tips," available online for overnight delivery. Just like it's always shocking to hear your own voice, it can also be surprising to see what you look like when you cast. There's a reason ballet studios and music rooms have large mirrors: this is the way…
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Trout Tips: The approach
Patience is perhaps the most elusive virtue—instant gratification, especially these days, is easier to attain. And it's no different for fly fishers. Finding a good stretch of water to fish isn't all that hard, but approaching it correctly, and giving yourself the best opportunity to catch not just one fish, but several fish, can prove…
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Trout Tips: Winter can offer hot fishing
One of the best days I ever experienced on Idaho's fabled Henry's Fork was also one of the coldest days I've every experienced on the water. It was one of those bitterly cold January days, but thanks to consistent water temperatures from an inflowing spring creek, the river was open and the fish were on…
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Trout Tips: The ABCs of winter trout fishing
Not all trout water is created equally—particularly in winter. As Umpqua's Russ Miller points out below, there are different holding lies for trout in the dead of winter. Trout aren't likely to spend as much time moving about and chasing food as they are in secure, deeper waters where food is essentially delivered to them by…
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Trout Tips: Vulnerability is an asset
Try using emergers or "cripple" patterns when casting during a prolific hatch with lots of working fish. Photo courtesy Orvis. Editor's note: The following is excerpted from TU's book, "Trout Tips," which is available online and can be shipped in plenty of time for the holidays. When fish have a lot of options in terms…
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Trout Tips: Fishing for other species can make you a better trout angler
Jonathan Wilson-Thieroff, 15, hones his skills on fish he can find close to home when he can't make it to trout waters. Courtesy photo. By Jonathan Wilson-Thieroff Here in St. Paul, Minn., where I live, the most readily available fish are bass, walleye, pike and panfish – unfortunately, not trout. Although there is great trout…
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