Wednesday, 16 August 2017

Video: Clinch Knot vs. Improved Clinch Knot

The first knot that most anglers learn is the clinch knot, and then they move on to the improved clinch. But is the latter always better than the former? I mean, it does say “improved” right in . . .

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Video: How to Tie the Marabou Thunder Creek Streamer

Keith Fulsher's Tying and Fishing the Thunder Creek Series was first published in 1973, and ever since, these cool little baitfish patterns have been catching all kinds of fish—from trout to. . .

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Warmwater Wednesday: Bass Go Ga-Ga for Gurglers

Written by: Preston Ailor


The Gurgler provided just the right action and commotion to draw strikes.
Photos by Preston Ailor

I have a problem. I look through fly-fishing magazines and catalogs the same way teenage boys look at Kardashians’ Instagram accounts. One day, looking through the Orvis fly catalog, I . . .

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Video: How to Tie the Composite Loop Zonker

I am lucky enough to sit next to Tom Rosenbauer here at HQ, and as I was watching this video of Tim Flagler teaching us how to tie this gorgeous streamer, Tom stopped at my desk. He said, . . .

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Tippets: Lahontan Cutthroat Migration, Smallmouth in the Yellowstone, Sea Lions & Steelhead

  • This year’s high snowpack in the Sierra Nevadas provided water flows that have enabled the Pilot Peak strain of Lahontan cutthroat trout “to migrate further into Nevada’s Truckee River waters than the fish has been able to do on its own in more than 80 years.” Watch more via the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  • Non-native smallmouth bass are moving upstream in the Yellowstone River, and anglers and fisheries managers are concerned about their effect on the trout population. Jack Ballard writes about the issue in Montana Outdoors.
  • Sea lions continue to feast on threatened winter steelhead below Willamette Falls on Oregon’s Willamette River. The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife highlighted the threat in a population feasibility study. “Without federal intervention, they said, there’s an 89 percent probability that least one population of the iconic fish species will go extinct in the near future.” Via Oregon Live.


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Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Video: Killer Strikes and Fights in Bolivia

Here's the second in a series of incredible videos from Bolivia, where golden dorado and other species attack flies with gusto and then take to the air in acrobatic fashion. These fish are . . .

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“Same Time Next Year,” by William G. Tapply

Written by: William G. Tapply


Fishing the "Big Lake" for smallmouths was twice an annual tradition for Bill Tapply.
Photo courtesy Colin McKeown, of The New Fly Fisher 

It was shortly after the arrival of the new year—the snow drifts around the north side of my barn stood eight feet deep, and the red stuff in the thermometer outside my kitchen window was . . .

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