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Become a better fly fisher

Fishing methods, species, ways to catch more fish - Learn fly casting - Become a better fly caster

Never fish with a broken hook!

Breaking bad: Am I dumb or what? Who would fish with a broken hook? Well, a lot of people do, actually. I do now and then, although rarely on purpose.
Learn how to avoid broken or dull hooks

The strike

Setting the hook: Once a fish has taken your fly there's a number of different ways to react. This article will try to help you hook more fish by adapting your strike or hook set.
Read about different methods here
Click to go to "Right hand or left hand?"

Right hand or left hand?
Jump to "Fly Fishing with Solo Canoes"

Fly Fishing with Solo Canoes
This link takes you to "Bronze Ides"

Bronze Ides
Directly to "Tom's Line Winder"

Tom's Line Winder
This link takes you to "Dicentrarchus labrax"

Dicentrarchus labrax
Click to see "Christmas gifts"

Christmas gifts
This link takes you to "Interview with a trout"

Interview with a trout
Find "Uncharted Waters Q&A" on this page

Uncharted Waters Q&A
Go to "Itu's Bones Q&A"

Itu's Bones Q&A
Skip to "Hatch Q&A"

Hatch Q&A
Find "Trout beads" here

Trout beads
Skip to "Lake Vintter "

Lake Vintter

  
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Fish safely
You know Murphy's Law; what can go wrong will go wrong. Accidents happen, even on a fishing trip, so be prepared. Mike Hogue helps you be ready for the unwanted eventuality.
  
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How to fish with more than one fly
Having more than one fly on your leader actually makes pretty good sense in the very simple way that presenting more than one temptation to the fish increases the chance of a bite. But there are many other reasons.
  
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The only knot
This is definitely going to get me in trouble! But I guarantee you that if you learn this knot you will be able to get very far in almost all kinds of flyfishing. Use this for your daily knotting and use loops for the rest (backing to fly line, fly line to leader), and you will be able to make it through many, many fishing days.
  
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Capt. Mel's Tube Knot
About 5 years ago after seeing so many really bad knots connecting the fly line to the butt leader section, Captain Mel Simpson came up with a knot that does not break, is a permanent part of the fly line and will easily go through the guides if necessary.
  
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The Fish & The Fly Q&A
The excellent DVD-series The Fish and the Fly are made by Danish filmmaker Niels Vestergaard and fly tyer and flyfisher Morten Oland. We contacted them regarding the videos and got them to answer to a few questions about the project.
  
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Stepping into the Stream Q&A
We had the chance to ask Barbara Klutinis - the woman behing the video "Stepping into the Stream" a few questions regarding her film about fly fishing women.

·10 rules for C&R
·10 ways
·10 Ways to Fish Green
·A Backyard in Nowhere Q&A
·A smart spooler
·Asp Parade
·Aux Outardes River Pike
·Balance beam
·Baskets, trays, buckets
·Beginner's Buzzer
·Biological Time
·Bonefish biology
·Bonefish Theme
·Bonefishing the Flats
·Boot Blues
·Braided sleeve and silicone tubing
·Break a rod
·Bronze Ides
·Bubble float
·C&R of salmon
·Capt. Mel's Tube Knot
·Car rod holders
·Carp on the Fly
·Catch & Release
·Catch&Release
·Chasing Gold
·Chinook in the salt
·Christmas gifts
·Chubby Fishing
·Chuck-n-Duck
·Cod on a flyrod
·Common casting errors
·Czech Nymphing
·Dicentrarchus labrax
·Do's and dont's
·Don't freeze
·Don't wade, you idiot!
·Driving podcast
·End of the rainbow
·Fernández Fly-Fishing for Bonefish
·First setup
·Fish safely
·Fishing - Kayak flyfishing
·Fishing a bubble
·Fishing the Muddler Minnow
·Fly fishing leaders and tippets
·Fly Fishing with Solo Canoes
·Fly line anatomy
·Fly Line Blues
·Fly Reel Blues
·Flyfishing for Perch
·Flyline Maintenance 101
·Four stream rods
·Furled leaders DIY
·Going deep
·Hatch Q&A
·How to act right
·How to fish with more than one fly
·How to look good
·Ice cold tubing
·Illustrated knot table
·Improving fly line control
·In search of Dinosaurs
·Interview with a trout
·Itu's Bones Q&A
·Jacket Blues
·Joining loops
·Juro Mukai's shooting head setup
·Kayak flyfishing
·Knots and ©
·Knots for the fly fisherman
·Lake Vintter
·Large loop connection
·LeaderCalc2007
·Leaders&Tippets
·Line care
·Loops
·Making a loop directly on a fly line
·Making a wading staff
·Making loops
·Measure tape II
·Measuring the temperature
·Midwest Hatches
·Montana Trout
·My summer salmon fishing
·Never fish with a broken hook!
·New York Salmon fishing
·O'io Boy'o!
·Old Hickory
·On bite tippets for pike flies - Global FlyFisher
·Our first mullets
·Packing
·Patagonian salmonids
·Pike Landing
·Production leaders
·QwikCalc
·Reel care
·Right hand or left hand?
·Rising Tide
·Rod care
·Safety and preparation
·Saved soles
·Sea Trout Gear
·Selecting a kayak
·Sharks!
·Shooting head talk
·Shooting heads
·Shooting lines
·Skunked
·Slinkies
·Smallmouth Jump
·Spring preparation
·Stepping into the Stream Q&A
·Stillwater Fishing
·Strike Indicator Scientology
·Tapâm Q&A
·The Bad Beginning
·The bag trick
·The Fish & The Fly Q&A
·The ghost and I
·The landing net for the coast
·The measure tape
·The only knot
·The Overlooked Asset
·The strike
·Tigerfish from my Verandah
·Tom's Line Winder
·Tom's reel
·Trout beads
·Twined or furled leaders
·Uncharted Waters Q&A
·Using the loop system
·Weird Ways
·When lightning strikes
·Where to fish
·Wind considerations
·Windy casting
·Winter fishing
·Yellow Fever
·Your best indicators!
·ZipCast
Reports
·Letter From Scotland
·Bronze Ides
·The Green Inchworm
·Another Year of the Giants
·Springtime In Detroit
·Pretty in pink
·My Time on the Mountain
·Lake fishing in Sweden
·Easy Fishing Florida Keys
·Sailfish on the Fly
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Reviews
·The Founding Flies
·Ultimate Fishing Adventures
·Wet Flies
·Classic Michigan Flies
·Trout (of the World)
·North Country Flies
·Streamers 365
·The Fly Fisher's Playbook
·Matching Major Eastern Hatches
·Classic Salmon Fly Patterns
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Patterns
·Neguinha Fulô
·Micro Tarantula Crab
·Pike Duster
·Mart's CdL Hen Caddis Emerger
·Glitter John
·F&K Caddis
·Catskill Tube Flies
·The Super Pupa
·This fly is NOT called Europe!
·Don Gapen's Muddler Minnow
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