The Orvis Fly-Fishing Video Podcast

In the fourth part of their epic series on how to fish a spinner fall, Dave and Amelia Jensen discuss fly selection and why they prefer tandem-dry-fly rigs for spinner falls. They even tell you which kinds of patterns to pair together.

Dave and Amelia Jensen continue to walk you through every aspect of fishing a spinner fall, from gear choices to presentation to hook sets. Here, they help you to understand rise forms, so you know which fish are feeding on spinners, as well as which trout are the really big ones.

In the second part of their epic series on how to fish a spinner fall, Dave and Amelia Jensen explain what you'll need to make the most of a spinnerfall--from fishing gear to clothing to accessories.

In the first part of their epic series on how to fish a spinner fall, Dave and Amelia Jensen give a great overview. The visuals are simply stunning, and info is incredibly useful.

Long gravel runs often look like featureless water that doesn't offer a lot of structure to hold trout. In this week’s Master Class Monday video, however, Dave and Amelia Jensen explain how these stretches can provide great dry-fly fishing under the right conditions. These are not easy trout, though--you've got to make accurate, stealthy casts to avoid putting the fish down when they're feeding on top.

When you see a big trout rising to mayflies, your first impulse is to cast right away, but as Amelia Jensen of Jensen Fly Fishing explains, your best bet is to slow down, watch, and wait. “Your first cast needs to be your best cast,” she explains, or you risk putting the fish down.

When you are nymphing a run, don't pick up your drift just because your indicator is even with your position. Instead, feed line into the drift to cover the water below you. You may be surprised by what you find!

Dave Jensen explains how you can increase your odds of hitting the stonefly hatch just right, and he also talks about the best ways to fish through the hatch--from the early days of migrating nymphs through the magic of ovipositing females. Even if you fish stoneflies a lot, you're sure to learn something here, and the visuals are fantastic.

Peter Kutzer of the ORVIS Fly Fishing School in Manchester Vermont demonstrates how to make three kinds of casts with a two-handed rod. Starting with a simple, static roll cast, he increases the amount of motion, moving to a dynamic roll cast, and then to the more advanced switch cast. As Peter move the line more, he is able to increase the line speed, which will enable you to cast farther and more accurately.

Watch these tips on fly-fishing for pike, then go listen to Tom Rosenbauer's interview with pike expert and guide Drew Price on the Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide Podcast!

In this great how-to video, Dave and Amelia Jensen, of Jensen Fly Fishing, demonstrate how they focus their attention and change depths and retrieves when they are prospecting for trout below below cliff wall deflections and rocks. Finding the right combination of location and tactics takes some experimenting, but the payoff is worth it.

A day on a trout stream does not always turn out like you plan it. Watch what Dave Jensen encounters on a trout stream, and how he modifies his flies to meet the challenge. It's always fun to improvise, and if you don't occasionally make a bold move when fly fishing you could be missing much of the fun.

We sometimes don't pay enough attention to sunlight and shade when fly fishing for trout. But as Dave Jensen shows using an example of a large cutthroat trout rising in a mountain river, your approach must take these conditions into account. This video will change the way you think about your approach on trout streams.

Most people have enough trouble fishing small dry flies without the added complication of gathering darkness. But trout often feed on small flies at dusk, and if you don't have any tricks up your sleeve you might miss out on some great dry-fly fishing for trout. Dave Jensen gives us some great tips on how to fish small flies.

In this great how-to video, Dave and Amelia Jensen show how they fish a rock garden with prospecting patterns. As you'll see, they work all seams, the cushions in front of rocks, and several other parts of the water.