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Fly fishing's evolution over the past 20 years has been intriguing to watch, especially as techniques get refined to chase fish that wouldn't be considered "traditional" quarry on a fly rod. The longnose gar certainly wouldn't fall into the "traditional" category, but there's a growing subset of anglers who have mastered the technique of chasing them on the...

Dom Swentosky, over at Troutbitten, always has well-rounded opinions and insights into the more technical aspect of fly fishing. So, it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone that Dom favors a different style of indicator than what most of us use. His favorite is the Dorsey Yarn Indicator, which is a slightly different take on yarn indicators than what...

Gilbert Rowley and the crew at Capture Adventure Media have launched a new fly fishing series on YouTube. The Code Break Angler series is a marriage of Rowley's award-winning cinematography, paired with different point-of-view cameras and narration to help teach other anglers how to have more success out on the water. The first episode is out now, and you...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...