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Video spotlight: Amazon River Fly Fishing
My friend Mark Melnyk travels the world hosting episodes of The New Fly Fisher, an old-school fly-fishing program that's adapting to its web-only format quite nicely. Every time I watch an episode, I'm transported back to those lazy Saturday mornings in the 1990s and early 2000s, when hosts like Jose Wejebe and Flip Pallot would…
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Video spotlight: How to Fish Jig-head Streamers
Throwing big, weighted streamers can be challenging for a lot of anglers—the added weight also adds some needed nuances to your cast, if for no other reason than to avoid wearing a big, purple monstrosity as an earring. But what about flies tied to even heavier jigheads? Is the need to get really deep, really…
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Video spotlight: Aniak Mousing
Todd Moen at Catch Magazine is at it again. The mousing subculture among fly fishers is just as rabid as any steelhead conclave or dry-fly crew. Chasing big trout on mouse patterns has become nothing short of a religious endeavor for many. Video of Aniak Mousing *TRAILER* - Alaska Fly Fishing by Todd MoenAnd Moen,…
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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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