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We’re here to talk about fishing angles. Are you wading upstream or down? And are you casting upstream or down? What’s your preference? Why do you make that decision? When, if ever does it change? And does your casting direction always follow your wading direction?
Sometimes, these preferences seem regional, while other times it’s specifically about the tactic — meaning that swinging wet flies, for example, suits a downstream approach best. But sometimes, angle choice seems more like tradition, and many anglers simply fish a certain way because their Dad did.
Most of us at Troutbitten look at things objectively. We all went through a period of time where we tore everything down that we thought we knew and rebuilt the database from the ground up. We want to know what really works best.
My good friends Matt Grobe and Bill Dell join me to answer these questions.
Resources
READ: Troutbitten | The Downstream Fisher Yields to the Upstream Fisher
VIDEO: Troutbitten | Riverside: Fishing Direction – Should You Work Upstream or Downstream?
READ: Troutbitten | Face Upstream, Fish Upstream
READ: Troutbitten | The Advantages of Working Upstream
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Domenick Swentosky
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Fun discussion as always.
Wondering why you didn’t bleep the names of 3 or 4 rivers tho. New policy or a mistake?
And Devin Olsen named names re tippet material diameters recently, why didn’t you feel you could?
Thanks. No, not a new policy. We talked about this in a recent podcast titled, Back to Spot Burning. I think it’s alright to reference a major river by name, especially while not even talking about the fishing itself.
Also, I addressed tippet diameters many years ago in this article, and I did in fact specially list the true diameters of many companies. You can find that here:
https://troutbitten.com/2020/08/11/fly-shop-fluorocarbon-too-expensive-try-invizx/
I really loved Devin’s video. We need a lot more of that in this industry. If it’s wrong, call it wrong.
Cheers.