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Travel Creel: Raising the Bar for Fly Fishing Travel

On the first official Travel Creel trip, a group of anglers gathered on the Oregon coast chasing winter steelhead....

How to Tie: The Corona Stone

In this week’s “How to Tie” feature, Kelly Galloup with TheSlideinn ties a nymph that every trout angler with stoneflies in their water should...

Behind the Cause: CalTrout

For this installment of Behind the Cause, the Flylords team sat down with California Trout, the preeminent conservation organization focused on California's freshwater ecosystem....

March Madness Bracket Challenge: Fly Fishing Edition

For March Madness, we thought it would be fun to put to the test a topic widely debated by fly anglers: the best species....

Dialed In: Catching More Smallmouth Bass with Mike Schultz

Bronzeback. Smallie. Micropterus Dolomieu. Smallmouth Bass. They are fighters; hardy fish with toughness and aggression matched only by those who relentlessly hunt them with...

Tying a Fly To Mimmic Shoal Bass

A Note from Leighton Phillips (@fatbuffaloflies): https://www.instagram.com/p/DU_lNBxABv5/ "I had been seeing a few multi fish/umbrella rigs from different people I follow and following a literal fever...

Fly Fishing 101: Understanding Fishing Sunglasses

Over the past half-decade, as I've dived into teaching new anglers on essentially a full-time basis, I've come to realize quickly what is and...

West Virginia Pharmacists Host Fishing Derby

Student pharmacists at West Virginia University are hosting a fishing derby to raise awareness of a problem that many anglers likely don't know about....

Streamer-Fishing 101: Excerpt from The Orvis Quick-Start Guide to Fly Fishing

Excerpted from The Orvis Quick-Start Guide to Fly Fishing, by Philip Monahan. The book is not a comprehensive guide. It is written to help...

Fly Tying 101: A Beginner’s Guide

The art of fly tying is synonymous with the act of fly fishing itself. For many, fly tying is a way of expressing what...

Honoring Joe Wolthuis

The fly fishing community feels like a big family. We get together a few times a year for reunions at the fly fishing shows,...