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3 Bad Habits That Lose Big Fish

If you're tired of hooking into nice fish, only to lose them at some point during the fight, then you need to read this story from Louis Cahill at Gink & Gasoline. He details three bad habits that are likely to cause you to lose big fish, and how to avoid them. You can read the story here.

Orvis Podcast: A New Dry-Dropper Method

In this episode of the Orvis podcast, Tom Rosenbauer chats with Josh Miller about a new method for fishing dry-dropper rigs. Josh is a competitive angler, guide, and fly fishing coach, so he knows a thing or two about developing new takes on old methods in order to catch more fish. You can listen to the entire podcast here.

The Golden Ratio of Nymphing

In this recent story (with an accompanying video) Dom Swentosky lays out what he sees as the "golden ratio" for tight line nymphing. This ratio is the perfect distance at which to fish a tight line rig, and Dom goes on to say that "By staying within the Golden Ratio, we can trust that a perfect dead drift is possible, but casting outside of the ratio brings...

Too Much Mending Can Ruin Your Drift

We've all seen the Hank Patterson video where he tells his clients to constantly "mend it!" And while there's a huge nugget of truth to that bit of comedy, it's also true that too much mending can ruin a drift. That's the basis of Kent Klewein's latest over at Gink & Gasoline, which you can read here.

The Tracer Streamer Concept

In a recent story over at Troutbitten, Dom Swentosky goes over his "tracer streamer" concept. It's Dom's process of fishing two streamers at once, which he's honed over the years as both an angler and a guide. I've known guides who swear by a two-streamer rig, and one of the best anglers I know fishes two streamers religiously during ice-off on local...

Tips for Winter Fly Fishing

Joe Cermele and Kirk Deeter teamed up to write an in-depth guide for anglers looking to catch trout on the fly this winter. While the first half of their story focuses on conventional angling techniques, there are some nuggets fly anglers can glean from it. The second half, however, is full of four tips to help you put more trout in net this winter...

Fighting Fish Downstream

One of the trickiest things to master in fly angling, in my opinion, is properly fighting trout that get downstream from you. The added weight of the current can make for a different, challenging fight. I lost plenty of fish in my early fishing days because I didn't know how to fight them if they got beneath me. Thankfully, we have this great video from Tom...

The 101 on Catching Trout With Streamers

Streamer season is upon us, and if you're wanting to try out this method of fly fishing, you should read this story from Joe Cermele over in Field & Stream. Cermele takes readers through all the basic info you need to know about fly fishing successfully with streamers. A resource like this can certainly help lower the learning curve for anglers who...

Tips For Catching Stocked Trout

As much as we'd all love to only catch wild trout, that's just not a reality anymore. Many trout fisheries survive thanks to stocking, and these stocked trout sometimes require different techniques to catch than their wild brethren. Freshly stocked trout, especially, can be somewhat immune to the more natural offerings us fly anglers are prone to use...

How to Catch the Biggest Fish of Your Life

If you really want to put a big fish in the net, then you should probably read this recent story from Matthew Calderaro over at the Orvis blog. Calderaro is a former rod designer at Orvis who now operates an outfitting business in Europe. In this story, he illustrates his points about catching big fish with the marble trout - a trout I desperately want to...