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Tying Tuesday: Top to Bottom

September 2, 2025 0 Comments

In this week’s Tying Tuesday, we’ve got patterns from each of the main categories—dry fly, nymph, and streamer. We kick things off with a historic pattern created by Don Martinez, who ran a a seasonal fly shop in West Yellowstone, Montana during the summers of 1932-1943. Using a pattern from Mike Valla’s The Founding Flies, […] Read more
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The 11th Annual “20 Days in September” Contest Starts Today!

September 1, 2025 0 Comments

The finalists from the Orvis 2024 contest produced some wonderful images that captured several species and a variety of on-the-water experiences. Although astronomical summer doesn’t end until September 21st, most kids are back in school, and the nights are growing increasingly crisp. It’s a time to reflect on how well you spent the longest Read more
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How Realistic Is Fly Fishing in Movies and TV Shows?

August 31, 2025 0 Comments

Over the past few decades, fly fishing has increasingly entered the public consciousness, and therefore it shows up more in car commercials, popular TV shows, and movies. But do these productions get things right? In this video, Brian Flechsig of Mad River Outfitters takes a look at a variety of fly-fishing scenes and judges them […] Read more
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A Brief History of Charles F. Orvis

August 30, 2025 0 Comments

Many people know that Orvis has been around since 1856—something of which the company is very proud—but do you know the actual history of the founder, Charles F. Orvis, for whom the CFO Reel is named? A story in the Vermont Daily Chronicle explains how the the son of a general-store owner became a hotelier […] Read more
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A.K. Best Remembered in a New York Times Obituary

August 29, 2025 0 Comments

Best at his home vise. Photo courtesy Umpqua Last week, we posted about the passing of legendary fly tier and author Archie “A.K.” Best, who died at the age of 92. Yesterday, the New York Times posted a lengthy obituary by Jeré Longman that gets to the heart of what made Best so popular: His […] Read more
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Influential angler and conservationist Flip Pallot dies at 82 | Hatch Magazine

August 28, 2025 0 Comments

The fly-fishing world lost yet another icon this week, when legendary angler and conservationist Flip Pallot died after complications from a surgery on Tuesday. Pallot, the engaging host of “Walker’s Cay Chronicles”, which had a 14-year, Saturday-morning television run from 1992 to 2006, and introduced millions to saltwater Read more
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