Fly Tying

• George Grant’s Woven Nymph
  George Grant and Franz Pott were the best-known tiers of the woven-hackle fly with their Featherbacks, Black Creepers, Fizzles, and Sandy Mites.
• Syl Nemes Mother’s Day Caddis
  To me, the real magic happened in places like the Shilo Inn convention center and old fly shops with the smell of coffee and moth-balls…
• Greenwells Glory
  The Greenwells Glory is an old fly with a storied history. I won’t repeat that history here, as you can easily find it yourself. However,…
• Icons: Clark Lucas
  With a famously eclectic vocabulary, a contagious full-belly laugh and a cache of body language to match his love of high volume jazz, Clark Lucas…

Atlantic Salmon

• Icons: Simon Gawesworth
  Icons, a web series from Swing the Fly, looks at the most influential figures in spey casting and swinging flies from North America and beyond…
• Episode 66 – David Bishop
  https://www.spreaker.com/user/11272357/episode-066 I got the chance to speak with David Bishop this week. Listen in as we discuss fishing at two-years-old, the beauty of casting, working…
• The Last Salmon
  I sometimes feel as if Angler #1 (Dry Fly Guy) is perched on my left shoulder and Angler #2 (Bottom Ranger) sits on my right…
• Terminal Thinking
  Terminal thinking seems especially prevalent as we contemplate the changes to our lives in a post-COVID-19 world. It’s a tough time to be a swinger…

Great Lakes

• Two-Handed Overhead Casting for Musky
  For a number of years before I took to the two-hander for musky, my fishing partner Nick Pionessa utilized two hand casting to effectively deliver…
• Adding Movement to the Swung Fly
  Controlling fly speed and depth through casting angle and line manipulation typically provides the presentation enhancements that result in success.
• Spey Casting Class with Rick Kustich & Topher Browne!
  Don't miss this one of a kind opportunity to improve your casting with Rick and Topher!
• Outfitters North
  "It's great to see the fly fishing community putting more of a focus on us as Great Lakes steelheaders and designing these products for the…

International

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• Icons: Simon Gawesworth
  Icons, a web series from Swing the Fly, looks at the most influential figures in spey casting and swinging flies from North America and beyond…
• An Adventure in Argentina
  Southern Patagonia is known for its windy days.
• The P.T. Slow Swing
  So simple and so effective, I cannot say how often it‘s saved my day, from my rivers at home, to along the classic rivers in…
• The Green Machine and the Rio Grande
  Last January, Michael and I finally stood on the banks of the Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego. Like always, we booked on a relatively…

Spey Casting

• Casting with Joe
  “Hey, look at what I got today,” Joe said. And he rushed to bring out two new bamboo rods—big rods—one 13 feet long, the other…
• Kruk’s Spey Casting Secrets II: Line Follows Rod Tip
  He's back here in 2023 with a 1-part follow up to the popular series from 2022.
• Teaser: Kruk’s Spey Casting Secrets II
  Coming in a couple weeks for Swing the Fly members: Bruce expands on "Line Follows Rod Tip"
• Linespeed Jedi Exclusive: Spiral Single Spey
  Mr. Linespeed is back with some tips and tricks for the spiral single spey.

Trout Spey

• Icons: Simon Gawesworth
  Icons, a web series from Swing the Fly, looks at the most influential figures in spey casting and swinging flies from North America and beyond…
• George Grant’s Woven Nymph
  George Grant and Franz Pott were the best-known tiers of the woven-hackle fly with their Featherbacks, Black Creepers, Fizzles, and Sandy Mites.
• Syl Nemes Mother’s Day Caddis
  To me, the real magic happened in places like the Shilo Inn convention center and old fly shops with the smell of coffee and moth-balls…
• Greenwells Glory
  The Greenwells Glory is an old fly with a storied history. I won’t repeat that history here, as you can easily find it yourself. However,…

West Coast

• Icons: Kerry Burkheimer
  In this installment, we visit with Kerry Burkheimer in his shop on main Street in Washougal, WA, where he shares the meaning of “hand rolled…
• Guide Gossip #12: When Do You Go Subsurface?
  As a guide or avid angler, you start to learn the river intimately and eventually figure out what works. What you are left with is…
• Icons: Mike Kinney
  Mike Kinney, known as the “Godfather of Skagit” to many, is quietly and humbly one of the most respected legends of Pacific Northwest steelheading.
• Icons: John Shewey
  ertainly at the same time—in Oregon, Washington, BC, and on other streams in CA—fly anglers were succeeding in catching these enigmatic fish on flies, but…