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blog BY chris_hunt ON November 16 - 0 COMMENTS
New gear: Fair Flies fly-tying brushes
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Finding the best fly-tying materials can be really difficult, particularly when you take into account things like finding ethically sourced materials that provide living-wage jobs for the folks who assemble them or even tie flies for a living. Fair Flies Fly Tying Brush from Angling Trade Media on [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON November 16 - 0 COMMENTS
Fly tying: The Wood Special
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In the Northeast, where fly fishing got it's American start on the brook trout waters of the Adirondacks, the Catskills and in the north woods of Maine, older, more traditional flies still find their way into fly boxes. And why not? They're beautiful creations that were meant to attract native [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON November 15 - 0 COMMENTS
Fly tying: Cleaning a Dubbing Needle
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For those of us who tie flies and work with various resins, from head cement to full-on UV materials, a dubbing needle is likely our tool of choice for applying the goo. For years, I used a square of craft foam to clean the needle after each use—I'd just poke the needle through the foam and let it [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON November 13 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: Wader season
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By Toner Mitchell The boy is back in school, the trees around his soccer field the same blazing gold as the cottonwoods along the Rio Grande and the flanks of the brown trout bucks I’m hoping to catch there. The aspens, now bare, were equally stunning a month ago when I hiked up in search of the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON November 13 - 0 COMMENTS
Video spotlight: Tightline Nymphing for Beginners
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Tight-lline or "Euro" nymphing isn't anything new, but for a lot of anglers—particularly new or novice fly fishers—it can be a bit confusing. I think what confounds most anglers new to the method is the disbelief that a full-grown fisherman can generally stand right in the midst of feeding trout [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON November 9 - 0 COMMENTS
Fly tying: Wood Duck Heron
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As a utilitarian fly tier, if I can find a fly that's both simple to tie and effective on the water, I'm in a pretty good place. I like flies that I can a dozen of at a single sitting and not feel like I've been hunched over the vise for hours. Wood Duck Heron Video of [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON November 6 - 0 COMMENTS
Fly tying: The hobby knife
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Back in my early newspaper days, when we actually used flats to lay pages out on lightboards, I never went anywhere without my trusty X-Acto knife. I used it to trim border tape, surgically slice columns to fit the allotted space and do all sorts of trimming once the actual journalism was done and [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON November 2 - 0 COMMENTS
Fly tying: The Palomino Midge
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Normally, when I hear Tim Flagler say that he's tying a fly in a size 20, "but feel free to go smaller," I just throw up my hands and resign myself to the fact that the pattern he's demonstrated is for fingers smaller and more dextrous than mine.  Palomino Midge Video of [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON October 30 - 0 COMMENTS
Voices from the River: Birds of a feather
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By Toner Mitchell Step one: throw a long cast down or upstream, immediately click the bail, establish tension, then activate your lure with a six to eight foot pull. Step two: stop everything. In these two moves, you have alerted every trout in the pool to the arrival of a big and vulnerable prey.  [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY chris_hunt ON October 30 - 0 COMMENTS
Fly tying: Working thread length
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One of the most basic skill fly tiers must learn when getting into the craft is how to manage the thread as it comes off the bobbin. It seems simple, but I can't count the times I've watched brand-new tiers trying to figure out just how much thread they need to work with as they sit down to tie a [ READ MORE... ]
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