Tag: fly fishing

Choosing Flies Size Matters When choosing trout flies, the relative importance of fly characteristics in your selection, in order, should be: size, shape, color, and action (for stripped flies). In saltwater, action is often more important than exact size and shape. Dropper Flies or Tandem Rigs Dropper flies are a trout angler's secret weapon. A simple...

Jensen Fly Fishing consistently produces some of the best instructional fly fishing videos you'll find anywhere on the internet. This recent video from them takes you into the world of fishing woolly buggers - one of the most effective flies ever - on rivers.

This video I found on YouTube is one of the best short fly fishing films I've ever seen. It details the life of a fly fishing guide who's also a full-time student at the University of Arkansas - Jake Flood. Definitely give this video a watch.

The Fly Fishers International (FFI) Awards and Nominations Committee is proud to announce the recipients of the 2020 FFI awards. These prestigious awards recognize and reward those individuals and organizations that have advanced the sport of fly fishing, including notable achievement in fly tying, casting, fly fishing skills, and conservation. In addition...

"Brown trout fly fishing in small streams is exciting. Hunting brown trout is a game of poking about the likely holding water in a trout stream, looking for a rising brown trout, spotting the brown trout or prospecting. Stalking rising and cruising brown trout takes on a whole new level of fly fishing in trout streams and in this video, the first episode of...

"The Woolly Bugger. No matter if you're brand-new to fly fishing or have been fly fishing 5 decades, it's in your pack. You can't avoid 'em, they catch fish universally. Let's take a look at how to fish woolly buggers using different tactics, techniques and where in a river to apply each."

"Fly fishing for brown trout often requires stealth and dedication and time to allow things to unfold on trout streams. Stalking rising and cruising brown trout takes on a whole new level of fly fishing in trout streams, in particular, back waters. The engagement can often be intense. In this video we lead with a short, on the water video that examines fly...

Door prize winners brought home fly fishing trips and gear valued at tens of thousands of dollars at the 2020 Fly Fishing Shows, announced President and CEO Ben Furimsky.   Prizes, names of winners, Fly Fishing Show location where the prize was won and the values include: Untamed Angling/El Faro Lodge, Cuba; Scott Otvos, Pleasanton, $11,000; Blue Horizon...

Jill Dutton put this piece together for Travel Awaits, about her first time fly fishing. It's an interesting read from a viewpoint we don't get too often in fly fishing. Read it in full here.

"Fly fishing for brown trout is one of the hilights of trout stream anglers. Stalking rising and cruising brown trout takes on a whole new level of fly fishing in trout streams. Add overhead cover like heavy bushes, and the engagement is intense and intimate. In this video we lead with a short, on the water video that examines stalking brown tout under...