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Whether a fly-fishing trip in the tropics, an upland hunting trip in Montana, or a weekend outdoors at home with family, Orvis can outfit you. A leading corporate steward for the environment, Orvis commits 5% of its pre-tax profits to protecting nature.
From scheming that upland holiday getaway with the crew, to roaring stories around the fire, to double-hauling the flats—there’s nothing like being out there with your favorite people on Earth!
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Sometimes you want a flashy nymph. We'll talk about where and when you might try one with a lot of flash, and also the pros and cons of tying a nymph on a jig hook. And oh yeah we'll also tie one. This is an easy pattern so you may want to tie along.
Lightning Bug Nymph
Hook: Size 12-18 Tactical Jig hook
Bead: Gold tungsten, slotted
Thread: Olive 8/0
Tail: Pheasant Tail
Body: Pearl tinsel or Flashabou ribbed with silver or gold wire
Thorax: Peacock herl or dubbing
Legs: Pheasant tail or none
Tonight at 9 pm Eastern and 6 pm Western, you can catch a great live online event. Sue Doroff of Western Rivers Conservancy and Tom Rosenbauer will sit down for a one-on-one conversation during part three of WRC’s “Exploring the Great Rivers of the West” series.
This is a live webcast that will take place in front of a small audience at the Presidio Officers’ Club in San Francisco and be livestreamed on WRC’s website. Click the link to register.
Exploring the Great Rivers of the West: On the Trail with Tim Palmer, is a fast-paced and highly informative slideshow by author and conservationist Tim Palmer.
On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the First World War came to an end. The day was labeled Armistice Day--now celebrated as Veterans Day. On Veterans Day, we take time to recognize and celebrate those who have served in the United States Armed Forces. We honor the commitment, bravery, and sacrifices of veterans and their families in service to the nation and the ideals upon which our country continues to build. We are proud to celebrate and honor those among us at Orvis who have served, and to support through partnership the work being done in communities around the country to serve veterans through the lens of fly fishing.
It's tough to beat the excitement of walking up behind a locked-up pointer in a field of cut corn or flushing ruffed grouse in a hardwood forest. And we'll take busting clays at the local range over golf any day. With more than 50 years of sharing the art of wingshooting, Orvis has a school to help you become a better shotgunner. Check out our wide selection of wingshooting schools here:
https://www.orvis.com/wingshooting-schools
TGIF5! In this week's collection of the best fly-fishing videos from around the world, we've got tons of steelhead, some cool conservation stories, and a guy from France catching fish bigger than you thought possible. Get some!
Welcome to the another edition of the Orvis News Friday Fly-Fishing Film Festival! Each week, we scour the Web for the best fly-fishing videos available and then serve them up for you to enjoy. This week, we’ve got eleven cool productions, heavy on . . .
Happy Veterans Day (observed) to all who have served to protect our great nation. Orvis is proud to partner with Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc. through events and fundraising at our stores, and we urge you to check out this incredible organization and, if you can, to donate time or money to aiding their cause.
“School of Fish” has won BEST SHORT FILM at Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival
Indigenous people and salmon have been intertwined for thousands of years in Bristol Bay, Alaska. The film “School of Fish” offers an intimate portrait inside one family’s seasonal salmon rituals and their connection to the Bristol Bay Guide Academy, where local youth are empowered through fly fishing to serve both as guides and also as the next generation to protect the most prolific salmon run left on earth.
Hit the link below for the full trailer. Stay tuned for the release of the full film on November 28th at Orvis.com with support from Trout Unlimited
Kudos to the many folks that poured their hearts into telling this important story and congrats on the award!
Directed by Colin Arisman & Oliver Sutro
Presented by Orvis & Trout Unlimited
Starring - Triston Chaney, Robin Samuelsen, Robyn Chaney, Cameron Andrew
Cinematography by Oliver Sutro, Colin Arisman & .media
Wildlife footage by Jason Ching
Edited by Oliver Sutro
Additional editing by Colin Arisman & Matteo Moretti
Original score by Aled Roberts
Post Audio by Ridgeline Sound
Color by Pinto Color
Produced in association with Wild Confluence
https://www.orvis.com/save-bristol-bay.html
When you need a small, subtle, easy-to-cast hopper this classic pattern is one of the best. Watch live and vote on which tier does the best job--and it will all be down to the last seconds because the deer hair head will make or break this fly.
Letort Hopper
Hook: Size 14 2XL dry fly hook
Thread: Tan 6/0
Body: Tannish yellow dubbing
Wing: Mottled turkey wing lightly sprayed with acrylic artist’s sealer
Head and legs: Whitetail deer body hair
Be sure to catch the current season of the Orvis Cover Dog Contest! Tag a friend whose pup would make an awesome Cover Dog, and check out our stories today for some of our favorite Cover Dog Winners from the past few years.
Enter your pup and vote for your favorites at coverdog.orvis.com, link in bio.
Shown is Darby, 2022 Winner.
'Tis the season to revisit these glorious pumpkin creations (Trout O'Lanterns?) from Tim Johnson Gallery Happy Halloween!
Tiny olive mayflies can hatch any time of year, but are especially common in late fall. When trout eat these annoying little bugs, at times they won't take anything larger than a size 24. But these flies are easy and simple to tie. You can do it! Watch how simple and easy these tiny imitations are to tie--in fact we'll have time to tie both a dun and a spinner.
Olive Yarn Sparkle Dun
Hook: Orvis BigEye dry, size 24
Thread: Yellow size 12/0
Tail: Tan Antron or Z-Lon yarn
Body: Pale olive dubbing
Wing: Fulling Mill Ultra Dry Yarn or EP Trigger Point, light gray
Tiny olive spinner
Hook: Orvis BigEye dry, size 24
Thread: Yellow size 12/0
Tail: Pale dun Microfibbetts or hackle fibers
Body: Pale tan/olive dubbing
Wing: Fulling Mill Ultra Dry Yarn or EP Trigger Point, light gray
Earlier in the month, 14 of our US retail locations hosted adoption events! We are anticipating over 50 good girls and good boys finding their forever homes*. Did you find your adventure partner through an adoption event, or maybe even through an Orvis store? Have a favorite rescue? We’d love to hear about it in the comments!
Thinking about adding to your family but have some questions? Check out our stories today for some thoughts around those important questions.
*Total adoption numbers from events are pending background checks, to ensure these pups end up in loving homes.
Beds provided so much for a pup – a space of their own, a calming constant, and if they’re made right – an incredible tool for rest and recovery. Melinda’s Urban Uplander Pet Care, LLC pack shows off their RecoveryZone beds, getting a little R&R after serious exploration, field work and giving a lot of good dog energy.
In our stories today Melinda helps us understand how to properly train our dogs to sleep in their beds when first introducing them.
This is one of Tom's favorite streamers, especially for fall trout. Unlike many modern streamer patterns, it uses few materials and is not articulated, but it still has great action and appeal to trout everywhere. It is a time-consuming fly to tie, however, but worth the effort.
Moto’s Minnow
Hook: 4XL streamer hook, size 6-10
Bead: Gold tungsten cone, small
Extra weight: Non-toxic wire
Thread: Brown, 6/0
Tail: Brown marabou or brown grizzly marabou
Body/hackle: Brown Hungarian partridge feathers or brown mottled hen feathers. Can also tie with white marabou tail and gray Hungarian partridge, gray mottled hen saddle, or hen grizzly
Orvis Dog Ambassador, Melinda Benbow, brings us along on her pup’s dream day. They take advantage of all their local conservation areas have to offer around their home in Indianapolis. A dog trainer, owner/operator of Urban Uplander Pet Care, and upland enthusiast, Melinda knows how important it is for dogs to stay active and have opportunities to tap into their natural instincts. Not only from a physical health perspective, but for their mental and emotional well-being too. And of course, how key rest and recovery is to be able to get up and do it again the next day, and for years to come.
Check out our stories today for more about Melinda, and the importance of choosing a high-quality bed for your pup.
From scheming that upland holiday getaway with the crew, to roaring stories around the fire, to double-hauling the flats—there's nothing like being out there with your favorite people on Earth!
https://www.orvis.com/experience-orvis
The Iso is, on many rivers, the last big (in size) mayfly of the season. It's well imitated by a parachute pattern. Watch the live tie-off and vote in real time if Tim or Tom ties the best version.
Iso Parachute Dry Fly
Hook: Standard or 2XL dry fly hook, size 12
Thread: White 8/0 (70 Denier).
Tail: Moose body hair.
Post: White polypropylene floating yarn, Fulling Mill Ultra Dry Yarn, or EP Trigger Point fibers (For ultra realism but less visibility can also use dark dun yarn)
Body: Isonychia or dark reddish brown dry fly dubbing (mix Rusty Spinner color with black or dark brown).
Hackle: dark dun hackle.
We've got three worthy winners in this year's photo contest. It seems that voters were looking for something truly epic. Congrats to the finalists and all who participated.
This year’s “20 Days in September” Photo Contest was another great success, featuring thousands of great photos from anglers around the U.S. and quite a few from others countries. Though these foreign images weren’t eligible, it’s great to see these . . .
October is ! We want to give a shoutout to our friends at , an amazing organization that connects women with breast cancer to the healing power of nature. Join us in supporting this amazing organization during the month of October. Please share, like, and donate. Click here: https://bit.ly/3qiwCvf
New discoveries about false albacore, a bipartisan effort to protect Bristol Bay, and the future of sage grouse: these stories and more in our weekly round-up of vital conservation stories from around the country.
Welcome to the latest installment of the Wednesday Wake-Up Call, a roundup of the most pressing conservation issues important to anglers. Working with our friends at Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, the Theodore Roosevelt . . .
The current season of the Orvis Cover Dog Contest is coming to an end!
The last day to enter this season of the contest is September 30th. Tag a friend whose pup would make an awesome Cover Dog! This is our weekly randomly-selected roundup of recent Orvis Cover Dog submissions!
(From first to last: Time Bandit, Taco, Reilly Rae, Pancake, Abby, & Abbie). Enter your pup and vote for your favorites at coverdog.orvis.com!
This is a modification of an old pattern by Frank Sawyer, creator of the Pheasant Tail nymph. It's not as popular as the PT but often equally deadly for imitations of small mayflies. Tom has modified the pattern from the English chalk stream version to a heavier pattern for faster and deeper American rivers.
Gray Goose Flashback nymph
Hook: Size 14-18 2XL nymph (standard nymph)
Beads: Two undersized black tungsten beads
Thread: Olive, 8/0
Tails: Gray goose primary fibers
Rib: Fine silver wire
Body: Gray Goose primary feathers
Wing case: Gray goose primary fibers with strip of pearl tinsel
The current season of the Orvis Cover Dog Contest is coming to an end!
The last day to enter this season of the contest is September 30th. Tag a friend whose pup would make an awesome Cover Dog! This is our weekly randomly-selected roundup of recent Orvis Cover Dog submissions!
(From first to last: Zuppa, Lucy, Marvin, Lilly, & Jackson, Bowie, and Moses). Enter your pup and vote for your favorites at coverdog.orvis.com!
Sandanona Game Fair this weekend!!!
Clays shooting events, fly fishing and clays shooting instruction, bird of prey demonstrations, cooking demonstrations, the Land Rover Experience, gun dog exhibitions and more at Orvis Sandanona Shooting Grounds.
The Orvis Game Fair and Sporting Weekend is a fun and exciting outing for the whole family. When you visit, you'll find artists and craftsmen at work, distinctive exhibitors and vendors, and many events for kids and adults.
A hard-hitting story in the New York Times details the problems plaguing some of Montana's most iconic trout rivers, which are showing the effects of climate change and a host of other challenges. Plus, the fight to restore Louisiana's plummeting redfish population. Learn more in our weekly round-up of important conservation stories.
Over the past few months, we’ve highlighted some of the problems facing trout populations in southwestern Montana, especially on the Big Hole. Writing in the New York Times, Jim Robbins does a deep dive into the situation, talking to Wade Fellin of . . .
The Iris Caddis is a simple but deadly Montana pattern for an emerging caddis pupa that works throughout the world. It can be fished as a dry, emerger, or even deep when combined with another heavy nymph or split shot. Who will tie the better version? You get to vote on this live event at the end.
Iris Caddis
Hook: Size 14-18 Tactical Dry Fly
Thread: Brown or tan, 8/0
Tail: Brown or tan Z-Lon or Antron
Body: Hare’s ear dubbing. Mix in olive or tan rabbit or other dubbing if desired for color
Wing buds: Clear, tan, or gray Antron or Z-Lon
Thorax: Hare’s ear dubbing
This week in our randomly-selected roundup of recent Orvis Cover Dog submissions, we are highlighting the Cover-Worthy tip: It's the Little Things. Communing nose-to-nose with a just-landed trout, sneaking in a face lick while loading up the truck, or pausing on the trail to sniff out the squirrels ahead—your dog savors every moment. Help us feel like we’re there with you by capturing those small, but important details along the way.
Tag a friend whose pup would make an awesome Cover Dog!
From first to last: Nausicaa, Stella, Annie, Ford, Pepper, Bates, & Zippy.
Enter your pup and vote for your favorites at coverdog.orvis.com.
Repairs on the Wi******er Dam on Oregon's famed North Umpqua River have caused damage to the river and the fishery, generating new calls to have the dam removed altogether. This story and more in our weekly round-up of important conservation stories.
Welcome to the latest installment of the Wednesday Wake-Up Call, a roundup of the most pressing conservation issues important to anglers. Working with our friends at Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, the Theodore Roosevelt . . .
It's the first day of of our annual month-long fly-fishing extravaganza. Can you complete our challenge by getting out on the water 20 times in the next 30 days? Check out the great prizes in our Photo Contest. Break out the calendar and the maps, and start planning now!
Although astronomical summer doesn’t end for another three weeks, the kids are heading back to school, summer hours at work are nearly over, and the nights are growing increasingly crisp. (It’s was 49 degrees when I woke up this morning.) It’s a time to . . .
Diane Wantz's journey from intrigued customer to Fishing Lead at Orvis Cleveland is inspirational for more than one reason. Read about her commitment to using fly fishing to heal others. Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc.
This month, we feature Diane Wantz, who began working for Orvis in 2020 as a part-time, seasonal associate. She now serves as the Fishing Lead in our . . .
Brian Flechsig of Mad River Outfitters is back with another solid casting video, in which he makes two recommendations--one that's a no-brainer and one that might be more controversial.
In the latest installment in the series about fly casting from the folks at Mad River Outfitters in Columbus, Ohio, Brian Flechsig goes back to basics: He focuses on two underrated yet foundational concepts of casting. After 30 years of teaching . . .
Yesterday, in response to a Supreme Court ruling, the Environmental Protection Agency and US Army released slashed the number of waters protected by the Clean Water Act by half. This story and more in our weekly round-up of important conservation stories. Click here for more: https://news.orvis.com/fly-fishing/wednesday-wake-up-call-08-30-23
For conservationist and angler Jr Rodriguez to become “like the pictures he saw in magazines,” he had to leave behind what he loved most. By juxtaposing Jr’s origins in Houston, Texas, and his home in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, we share his journey of learning to love the outdoors and what it can be like to join in outdoor sports and conservation as a person of color in mountain towns in the western United States.
This week in our randomly-selected roundup of recent Orvis Cover Dog submissions, we are highlighting the Cover-Worthy tip: In The Action. Can’t sit still? Fine by us. Dock dives, snow-day zoomies, trail runs, or epic rounds of fetch—show off your active dog doing what they do best.
Be sure to check out our new Orvis RecoveryZone® Dog Beds, the ultimate rest and recovery tool for our four-legged family members— helping them play hard, rest easy, and recover faster for a lifetime discovering the wonder and awe in nature.
Tag a friend whose pup would make an awesome Cover Dog!
(From first to last: Rifkin, Chase, Mya, Joey, Roo, & Wesley and Vivien)
Enter your pup and vote for your favorites at coverdog.orvis.com and check out Orvis RecoveryZone® Dog Beds here: www.orvis.com/dog-beds
For the first time, a freshwater game-fish species might come off the Endangered Species List. This story and more in our weekly round-up of important conservation stories.
Welcome to the latest installment of the Wednesday Wake-Up Call, a roundup of the most pressing conservation issues important to anglers. Working with our friends at Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, the Theodore Roosevelt . . .
Come see us at Overland Expo Mtn West this weekend in Loveland, CO in booth B-45. We will be on-site teaching people how to cast, tie knots, and sharing the love of fly fishing with the overland expo community. This event is pet friendly so bring your pup to hang in our Dog Recovery Zone which will feature several items from our Tough Trail Dog travel line, the brand new Recovery Zone dog bed, as well as water and treats to keep them energized!
https://www.overlandexpo.com/mtn-west/
Did you know dogs sleep an average of 12 hours a day?
While that may sound excessive (or like a dream come true), dogs need all that rest to recover and rebound for tomorrow’s adventures. But not all dog beds are created equal.
We're excited to introduce our Orvis RecoveryZone® Dog Beds, the ultimate rest and recovery tool for our four-legged family members— helping them play hard, rest easy, and recover faster for a lifetime discovering the wonder and awe in nature.
https://www.orvis.com/dog-beds
This week in our randomly-selected roundup of recent Orvis Cover Dog submissions, we are highlighting the Cover-Worthy tip: In The Action. Can’t sit still? Fine by us. Dock dives, snow-day zoomies, trail runs, or epic rounds of fetch—show off your active dog doing what they do best.
Tag a friend whose pup would make an awesome Cover Dog!
(From first to last: Sailor, Re*****on, Wesley, Arya, Tootie, & Lily)
Enter your pup and vote for your favorites at coverdog.orvis.com
Game Fair at Orvis Sandanona returns this September 16th and 17th. Come enjoy the many attractions, including clay target shooting, fly-fishing and wingshooting instruction, a birds of prey exhibition, a game cooking presentation, working gundog demonstrations, the Land Rover Driving Experience, and many exciting vendors!
https://www.orvis.com/orvis-game-fair-and-sporting-weekend.html
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