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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

Portrait of a fishing dog

Woof: I've had a dog for close to ten years now, and he has been with me on almost every single fishing trip I've been on since I got him.
Read our story here

Henning's Setup

DIY: This shooting head setup for coastal fishing is both inexpensive, easy to make yourself and very easy to cast.
Learn how to rig it here
Read more on "February Red"

February Red
Click to see "Stripers on the flats"

Stripers
on the flats
More about "What is fly-fishing?"

What is fly-fishing?
Go to "2500 sea trout!"

2500 sea trout!
Go to "Never fish with a broken hook!"

Never fish with a broken hook!
Directly to "The strike"

The strike
This link takes you to "Right hand or left hand?"

Right hand or left hand?
"Fly Fishing with Solo Canoes" is found here

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

Bronze Ides
Go to the article "Tom's Line Winder"

Tom's Line Winder
Click to see "Dicentrarchus labrax"

Dicentrarchus labrax
Proceed to "Christmas gifts" here

Christmas gifts
  
 Go to Interview with a trout
Interview with a trout
Fish speak out for the first time ever! Learn why trout don't think a Royal Wulff is edible, why they jump when hooked and much more in this exclusive interview with the world trout spokesfish.
  
 Go to Uncharted Waters Q&A
Uncharted Waters Q&A
We contacted the team behind the video Uncharted Waters and asked them some questions. Read their replies and learn what drove them and how the trip and the DVD came to be.
  
 Go to Itu's Bones Q&A
Itu's Bones Q&A
Get the fascinating story of the video Itu's Bones when Carl McNiel, the man behind the video, answers our questions and tells how the whole thing started and developed.
  
 Go to Hatch Q&A
Hatch Q&A
We posed a series of questions to Nick Reygaert, the filmmaker behind the fabulous video Hatch, which shows a row of different "hatches" around the world. Hear about (video) gear, tight schedules and future plans.
  
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Trout beads
Trout beads aren't beads in the traditional fly tying sense but perfect imitations of salmon eggs and deadly efficient for rainbows. And they can be fished on a fly rod.
  
 Go to Lake Vintter
Lake Vintter
Lake Vintter may be the mother of all Patagonian lakes. Huge, rough, windswept high in the mountains and full of huge brook trout and rainbows.

·10 rules for C&R
·10 ways
·10 Ways to Fish Green
·2500 sea trout!
·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
·February Red
·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
·Henning's Setup
·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
·Portrait of a fishing dog
·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
·Stripers on the flats
·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
·What is fly-fishing?
·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
·Tributaries
·The Tube Fly
·Feather Brain
·The Founding Flies
·Ultimate Fishing Adventures
·Wet Flies
·Classic Michigan Flies
·Trout (of the World)
·North Country Flies
·Streamers 365
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Patterns
·X-Factor
·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!
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