Hot Fishing How-Tos
How To: Fish with maggots
A fishing expert explains about fishing with maggots.
How To: Set up your equipment for float fishing
A fishing expert explains about setting up for float fishing.
How To: Ledgering when fishing
Learn the basics of ledgering when fishing in this video.
How To: Fish for lake trout
In this video series, learn how to catch lake trout from expert fisherman Charlie Labarda. Charlie will tell you how to choose a rod and reel for fishing for lake trout and how to choose fishing line and bait. He demonstrate how to cast for trout, how to read a bobber in the water when trout fishing on a lake, how to set the hook when a trout bites, how to reel in a lake trout, how to de-hook a lake trout, and how to keep a fish fresh while fishing. Fish for lake trout - Part 1 of 15.
How To: Tie a Woolly Bugger for fly fishing
In this fly tying video series, learn how to tie the Woolly Bugger fly from expert fly tying expert Jeff Wilkins. Jeff will tell you what materials are needed to tie a Woolly Bugger, and he will demonstrate how to lay the base a Woolly Bugger, how to tie the tail of a Woolly Bugger, how to wrap the body of a Woolly Bugger, and how to tie the hackle and rib of a Woolly Bugger.
How To: Tie the bunny leach fly
In this how to video series, learn how to tie the bunny leach fly from professional fly fishing guide Jeff Wilkins. Jeff will teach you and demonstrate for you the bunny leach fly pattern.
How To: Hook a shrimp for live bait fishing
This video will show you how to hook a shrimp for live bait fishing. Fishing with live bait is a great technique.
How To: Make a basic fishing tackle
This video shows you how to prepare a basic fishing tackle. Good for kids learning to fish. All you need is a float, weight and a hook.
How To: Offshore fish
In this video series Rafael Mayans explains how to offshore fish. He goes over everything from the types of bait to use, trolling, tying knots and the laws of offshore fishing you'll need to understand.
How To: Tie a nonslip loop knot when fly fishing
Use this knot to attach the fly to your tippet when you want a loop that allows the fly to move freely. It gives streamers, nymphs, and popping bugs a deadly action. Don't use the nonslip loop knot on dry flies or on hooks smaller than a #12.
How To: Tie the flashback pheasant-tail nymph when fly fishing
Frank Sawyer, river keeper on Englands' Wiltshire Avon, designed an elegantly simple nymph that sinks quickly and imitates various Baetis mayfly species. Sawyer's nymph had only two ingredients: pheasant tail fibers and copper wire. The wire was used as an underbody, to attach the pheasant tail fibers to the hook, and also as a rib over the abdomen.
How To: Tie the gulper special when fly fishing
A parachute-style dry fly has several advantages over a standard hackled dry fly. The parachute name comes from the fly's propensity for soft, upright landings that don't spook trout. The body of the fly rides lower the surface film like a real mayfly and some people find the parachute wing is easier to see. Another important quality is that because the hackle rests horizontally on the water, parachute flies float well and also imitate mayfly spinners laying flush in the water, as well as dun...
How To: Tie a foam beetle when fly fishing
Mike Lawson also "unmatches" the hatch on the Henry's Fork and elsewhere, but he uses a beetle imitation. A beetle is a good searching pattern when no fish are showing.
How To: Tie a surgeon's knot when fly fishing
To add tippet to your leader, overlap a piece of tippet by no more than six to 8 inches with the end of the leader. Make a double overhand knot in the middle of the overlapped pieces, being sure to pass both the end of the leader and the entire tippet twice through the loop. When you tighten, lubricate the knot and pull on all four ends at the same time. This is crucial for maximum knot strength. This knot is so easy that I usually tie it as a triple overhand for a little extra strength. This...
How To: Tie a uni knot when fly fishing
The best knot for you is any good knot that you can tie quickly and strongly. So wouldn't it be great if you could tie all three connections with the same motion and if that motion were based on the first and simplest knot you learned as a child--the overhand knot? It turns out that by using the uni knot and its twin, the surgeon's knot, you can do just that. Though the uni knot is not as strong as many other knots, it is stronger than the improved clinch, and its simplicity may make up for w...
How To: Tie a hemostat blood knot when fly fishing
Connecting a fragile tippet to the leader can be frustrating and time consuming. Dr. Mark Lamos has a quick method that delivers a connection as strong as a blood knot. With practice, you'll be able to make this connection in less than a minute. Tie a hemostat blood knot when fly fishing.
How To: Tie a hemostat quick clinch knot when fly fishing
One of the most frustrating things about trout fishing is trying to quickly tie on a tiny fly when your eyesight or the light is failing. The Hemostat Quick Clinch is not as strong as some other knots. But one of my friends, Dr. Mark Lamos, uses this knot successfully and lands some very large trout with it. Unlike the clinch or improved clinch, you waste very little material tying this knot. Tie a hemostat quick clinch knot when fly fishing.
How To: Tie the Clouser minnow in fly fishing
Clouser's approach to fly design begins and ends onstream, with a lot of time spent in between at the workbench. Careful observation of the behaviors, habitats, and physical features of the foods fish eat is essential to developing a fly that looks and acts like the real thing. But the pattern must also pass rigorous standards of durability, ease of casting, and most importantly, consistently catch fish before it can be called a winner.
How To: Use epoxy on your flies in fly fishing
Bob Clouser shows us how to apply epoxy to your fly fishing lures.
How To: Use an egg yarn dispenser to tie flys
Using an egg yarn dispenser provides more consistent results, is quicker, and results in less material waste than tying egg patterns without a dispenser. You can use a drinking straw, the empty shaft of a ball-point pen.
How To: Make a skagit cast
Within the realm of Spey casting, there are three casting styles--traditional, Scandinavian, and Skagit. Greg Pearson shows you in this video how to make a spey cast developed in the Pacific Northwest. Make a skagit cast.
How To: Tie the Albright knot when fishing
The Albright knot is used for tying two fishing lines with different diameters to one another. The Albright knot is can be used whenever you need to tie two fishing lines together.
How To: Tie the arbor knot when fishing
The arbor knot is mainly used for tying the fishing line to the reel spool. The arbor knot is easy to learn and works well with thicker fishing lines.
How To: Tie the blood knot when fishing
The blood knot is used to join to fishing lines of similar size together. The blood knot is also used frequently by fly fishermen tying there own leaders.
How To: Tie the dropper loop when fishing
The dropper loop is a classic loop knot which is often used on multi-hook fishing lines and bait rigs. It can be created in the middle of the fishing line and forms a loop which is off to the side of the line.
How To: Tie a half blood knot with a tuck when fishing
The half blood knot with a tuck is similar to the improved clinch knot. The half blood knot with a tuck is a multi purpose fishing knot. The half blood knot with a tuck provides one good method of securing fishing line to hooks, lures, or swivels.
How To: Tie the improved clinch knot (variation) when fishing
The improved clinch knot (overhand knot variation) is as the other clinch knots a multi purpose fishing knot. The improved clinch knot provides one good method of securing fishing line to hooks, lures, or swivels.
How To: Tie the perfection loop when fishing
The perfection loop is used for attaching lures or sinkers to a heavy monofilament leader. The Perfection Loop knot is designed to easily create a loop at the end of the fishing line. The perfection loop is also often used by fly fisher men use the perfection loop to connect the fly fishing line and leader in a loop to loop connection.
How To: Fish with frog bait
Watch this instructional video to learn how to fish with frog bait. Use a long rod to make sure you have the strength you need to pull it through the brush. Pull it across the water, you might catch the biggest fish you've ever caught.
How To: Fish with spoons
Watch this instructional video to learn how to fish with spoons. Make sure you have good split rings. Use a stiff rod, its important to have a strong backbone on your rod.
How To: Use buzz bait
Watch this instructional video to learn how to use buzz bait. Buzz baiting uses counter rotating pepper jigs buzz bait with a drop down head. What you'll want to do with this one is just make a good long casts. You want to get it tightly covered as you can right along the edges and breaks, bounce it over rocks, go right through the middle of the brush. It'll stay fairly weaveless as long as you'll keep it moving, and be aggressive with it. Fish it where you don't think you can get anything el...
How To: Use bass lures
Spinner baits, soft plastic baits, jig baits, crank baits, and more. Tips on when to use different types of baits and what types of bait to use with different types of fish. Use bass lures.
How To: Tie a drop shot rig
Drop shot rigging is an advanced fishing technique and Ron Colby (professional angler and fishing tournament winner) is here to show you how to drop shot.
How To: Tie a Parachute Adams for fly fishing
In this fly tying video series, get free fly tying instructions for tying a Parachute Adams dry fly from expert fly fisherman Jeff Wilkins. Jeff will teach you what fly tying materials you will need to tie the Parachute Adams and will give you a list of the materials you will need. He will show all the steps needed to make a Parachute Adams fly including: fly tying the base and tail of a Parachute Adams dry fly, fly tying the wing, fly tying the body, how to tie in the hackle, and how to wrap...
How To: Tie flies for fishing
Ed Story shows us how to tie flies for fishing in this series. Part 1 of 14 - How to Tie flies for fishing.
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