VIDEO: Crossover Style – Streamer X Nymph

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Streamers | Tactics

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I’ve written and talked about what I call the Crossover Technique for many years. It’s streamer’s on a tight line. It’s part streamer concept and part nymphing. There’s always a streamer on the point, and sometimes a nymph is added as a second fly.

The Crossover is all about taking a streamer to the fish. Instead of stripping our fly away from the trout, asking it to get up and chase, the Crossover style makes it easier for a lazy trout to say yes to the presentation. That said, it’s not a dead drift. This is much different than just nymphing your streamer down the river.

Crossover techniques are subtle but attractive. We’re trying to inspire the trout to eat a bigger food form, while having precise control over exactly where the fly is and how it moves, all because we’re fishing it on a tight line, Mono Rig system.

This is one of my favorite ways to fish.

In the latest video, we cover rigging, leaders, flies and techniques for the Crossover technique.

Here are a few more resources that apply . . .

VIDEO: Troutbitten | Fish and Film – Crossover Shifts
READ: Troutbitten | Streamer Presentations – The Crossover Technique
PODCAST: Troutbitten | Streamer Presentations #8 — The Crossover Technique (S14, Ep8)

And here’s the video . . .

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Domenick Swentosky
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Domenick Swentosky

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Hi. I’m a father of two young boys, a husband, author, fly fishing guide and a musician. I fish for wild brown trout in the cool limestone waters of Central Pennsylvania year round. This is my home, and I love it. Friends. Family. And the river.

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