--- title: Fishing & Fly Fishing description: Fishing spans freshwater, saltwater and fly techniques. You will learn tackle and knots, reading water, species behaviour, casting and fly fishing fundamentals. category: sports-recreation subcategory: individual-sports difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/fishing --- # Fishing & Fly Fishing Fishing spans freshwater, saltwater and fly techniques. You will learn tackle and knots, reading water, species behaviour, casting and fly fishing fundamentals. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 1 Courses • 3 Websites ## Podcasts ### 1. Outdoor Journal Radio: The Podcast **Author:** Angelo Viola and Peter Bowman Angelo Viola and Peter Bowman, longtime hosts of Fish'n Canada, interview guests about fishing, hunting, and conservation issues affecting Canadian outdoors. Listeners follow current debates on access, wildlife management, and habitat alongside practical field talk. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** en-ca | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.fishncanada.com **Tags:** fishing, angling, hunting, conservation, canada ### 2. The Orvis Fly-Fishing Podcast **Author:** Tom Rosenbauer Weekly episodes hosted by Tom Rosenbauer since 2007, archived and sorted by subject: trout, bass and pike, steelhead, saltwater, equipment and conservation. Guests are working guides and authors, and most episodes open by answering listener questions. The archive is browsable by topic rather than only chronological, making it usable as a reference. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://howtoflyfish.orvis.com/podcasts **Tags:** fly-fishing, trout-fishing, fishing-tactics, gear-selection ## Websites ### 1. Troutbitten **Author:** Domenick Swentosky Over a thousand free articles, videos and podcast episodes by Pennsylvania guide Domenick Swentosky, organized into tactical series on tight-line nymphing, the Mono Rig, streamers, dry flies and night fishing. Focused on wild trout and on why a presentation fails. The strongest free intermediate-to-advanced material in the sport, and the answer to what a learner reads after the beginner courses run out. Content is organized into deliberate multi-part series. **Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://troutbitten.com/ **Tags:** fly-fishing, nymphing, trout-fishing, presentation-tactics, streamers ### 2. Animated Knots by Grog — Fishing Knots Twenty-eight fishing knots demonstrated as step-by-step animations you can slow down or replay: improved clinch, Palomar, blood, nail, Albright, FG, Bimini twist, non-slip mono loop and others, grouped by job — attaching line to hook, joining lines, forming loops. Solves a discrete, high-frequency skill better than any book diagram or video: frame-stepped animation is the correct medium for knot instruction. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.animatedknots.com/fishing-knots **Tags:** fishing-knots, knot-tying, fishing-tackle, reference, animations ### 3. Fly Fishers International — Fly Casting Learning Center Fly Fishers International certifies casting instructors worldwide; its casting resource area publishes the lesson sequence those instructors teach — fundamentals, false cast, roll cast, pick-up and lay-down, change of direction — plus a video library and the Bronze, Silver and Gold skills workbooks. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://www.flyfishersinternational.org/Learn/Learning-Center-Resources/Fly-Casting **Tags:** fly-casting, fly-fishing, casting-instruction, skills-certification ## Books ### 1. The Orvis Fly-Fishing Guide, Revised **Author:** Tom Rosenbauer Rosenbauer's single-volume reference, revised in 2017, working through rods, lines, leaders, knots, entomology, casting mechanics and tactics for trout, bass, salmon and saltwater species. The lookup manual once the free video lessons have covered the basics. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1493025791?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** fly-fishing, fly-casting, entomology, fishing-tackle, reference ### 2. The Curtis Creek Manifesto **Author:** Sheridan Anderson Forty-eight page cartoon-illustrated primer from 1978, still in print through Frank Amato Publications. Anderson covers tackle selection, casting, reading moving water, insect identification, knots and stream etiquette in hand-drawn panels. Enduring community consensus over five decades, and unusually high signal-to-length ratio — the illustrated format teaches reading water and drift far faster than prose. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0936608064?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** fly-fishing, reading-water, fly-casting, beginner-guide, illustrated ## Courses ### 1. Orvis Fly Fishing Learning Center **Author:** Tom Rosenbauer, Pete Kutzer Free video course library from Orvis, taught mostly by Tom Rosenbauer and casting instructor Pete Kutzer. Fourteen beginner chapters cover knots, rigging, casting and reading water, followed by intermediate and advanced lessons on nymphing, streamers, saltwater and fly tying. Corporate-owned but instruction is genuinely free and not gated behind gear purchase. **Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://howtoflyfish.orvis.com/ **Tags:** fly-fishing, fly-casting, video-lessons, nymphing, fly-tying --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/fishing