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Video spotlight: Tom Rosenbauer’s Top 8 Fall Flies
From the "What the Experts Like" Department, Orvis brings you this great little informative video that first aired as a Facebook Live post earlier this month. But now, you can check out Tom Rosenbauer's eight favorite fall flies on your own. Video of Tom Rosenbauer's Top 8 Fall FliesThe message? Vary your size and your…
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Video spotlight: How to Fish Out of a Flats Boat
In recent years, fly fishing the flats of the Caribbean has become an expensive passion for me. I like to go at least once a year, usually in the spring when the weather here in Idaho can be still be relentlessly cold. And I usually try to do a lot of my flats fishing on…
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Video spotlight: Run Wild and Free
Oregon's Rogue River, one of the country's first designated Wild and Scenic Rivers. By Kyle Smith This week marked the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Wild & Scenic Rivers Act. Passed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1968, the Act was created “to preserve certain rivers with outstanding natural, cultural, and recreational values…
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Video spotlight: How to fish riffles for trout
One of the best days I ever had on my local river—the South Fork of the Snake—was spent almost exclusively fishing riffles with big stonefly nymphs, maybe a week or so before the river's fabled salmonfly hatch that generally happens sometime around the Fourth of July. The upper South Fork is a braided, fishy wonderland…
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Video spotlight: Striker’s Point Lodge
In the summer of 2017, I was lucky enough to join a group of friends on a quick trip to northwest Ontario, where we visited a couple of lodges with Mark Melnyk, who works for Wildnerness North, which owns and operates a handful of lodges in the North Woods. One of these lodges was Stiker's…
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Video spotlight: Crystal clear
If all brown trout in the Swedish Lapland are as eager as the fish in the video below to hit a dry fly, sign me up. How many times have you had multiple shots at the same brown, sight-fishing no less? Once, maybe, during the salmonfly hatch or at the height of hopper season? Video…
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Video spotlight: The importance of proper positioning
Years ago, while fishing the Rio Grande in southern Colorado with Kirk Deeter, I was casting to a rising trout but getting foiled by contrary currents in the river. Drag kept, well, dragging me down. Kirk, a guide and now the editor of TROUT Magazine, gave me the simplest—yet most important—piece of advice I've ever…
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