Experts

Here's a great quick lesson on fly-fishing for stripers in the surf with a two-handed rod. George Revel from Lost Coast Outfitters in San Francisco fishes the surf in real time, sharing practical tips and observations on reading water, positioning, casting in wind, fly selection, and adapting to changing surf conditions. These are lessons learned through...

You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone in the world with as much angling experience as Joe Humphreys, and in this video from The New Fly Fisher, he shares one of his favorite small-stream tactics, the long-distance bow-and-arrow cast.

Writing in Florida Sportsman, Chris O'Byrne offers some hot tips for targeting crappies on the fly in Florida: Good weather for crappie is often bad weather for other Florida activities. They are prompted to vigorous action by cooling lake and air temperatures, fresh winds predominantly from the north or west, and skies so cloudy that they look like a...

My friend Todd Tanner is a man of many strong opinions, which he often shares in his writing. In his latest for Hatch Magazine, he takes on a set of commonly-held beliefs about everything from flies to rods to overall views of the sport: We should never want [fly fishing] to be easy. Why? Because when we fish with a fly rod, we are consciously choosing to...

When Flip Pallot passed away unexpectedly on August 26th, he left a legacy that will be tough to match. Writing in Garden&Gun, T. Edward Nickens expresses the feelings of many folks in the fly-fishing world as they attempt to figure out what Flip meant to them: It’s difficult to imagine anyone sucking the marrow out of life as thoroughly as did Philip...

Here's a helpful video from The New Fly Fisher, in which Rob Heal describes the nuances and importance of high-stick nymphing, while fishing for trout in Idaho. The key is that the technique allows you to keep most, if not all, of your fly line off the water, which means your flies and indicator can drift more naturally.

Looking to make a trip to the tropical flats for the first time? For trout anglers, chasing bonefish can feel foreign and intimidating, but an article by Chris Hunt in Hatch Magazine tries to help you get ahead of the curve. This primer covers everything from gear and dealing with the brutal sun to presentation and the most important thing of all: Listen...

You need to get your streamer or soft hackle wet fly deeper than you can with a floating line. You want it to stay deep during your retrieve or swing. Should you just add a sinking poly leader to your floating line or are there times when a sinking tip fly line works better? In this video, Tom Rosenbauer explains how to make this important fly-fishing...

When you're learning to fly fish, everyone want to explain the "right way" to do everything—from casting to fly choice to presentation. But, as Ben Sittig explains in this video, those aren't the only ways. Sometimes the fish respond to strange flies and tactics in ways that can teach you new and effective tricks. I have caught trout on poppers, and it's...

Fishing small streams is a lot of fun, especially if you know how to make the most of the situation. In this video from The New Fly Fisher, Tom Rosenbauer shares his favorite tactics—from flies and rigging to approach and presentation—that he's honed over his five decades as a fly fisher.