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How to Successfully Drift Your Nymphs

Want to know how to drift nymphs? Stop your nymphs from doing the backstroke.

Bob Reynolds

Fly Fishing Retrieves

The right line retrieve can be the most important element in tempting a fish to strike.

Vic Attardo

Dapping Long Rods With Don Miller

Don Miller doesn't cast in the traditional sense. He "daps" by using a long rod to deliver

John Randolph

Pitchin' And Twitchin' Stoneflies and Terrestrials

Stoneflies and terrestrial insects wiggle, squirm, kick, crawl, run, and skitter, eliciting

Jeff Simpson

How To Be Successful Fly Fishing Shorelines

In the spring, the warmer water brings trout into the shallows where they feed for weeks after

Landon Mayer

Casting: Breaking the Wrist

Breaking your wrist prevents the rod tip from traveling in a straight plane, and can create

Landon Mayer

Simon Gawesworth on How to Fly Cast

Breaking down the forward stroke of fly casting.

Fly Fisherman

Line Tip: Slip and Grab

Grab the line or leader with your opposite hand and carefully handline the fish toward you

Ross Purnell, Editor

Perfect Cold-Weather Knot: Speed Blood Knot

The speed blood knot is easy, particularly with cold hands in freezing temperatures because

Fly Fisherman

The Basics of Euro Nymphing

Call it Euro, Czech, Polish, or short-line nymphing'no matter what tag you apply to it, the

Lance Egan

Lefty's No-Slip Loop Knot

Lefty's No-Slip Loop Knot

Ross Purnell, Editor

Active Streamer Presentations

The jerk-strip retrieve technique is the way to start your hunt for big fish.

Kelly Galloup & Bob Linsenman

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