PODCAST: Learning From Other Species and Other Styles | S19-Ep8 (VIDEO and AUDIO)

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Announcements | The Troutbitten Podcast

 The Troutbitten Podcast is now available on YouTube as a video podcast, along with the audio podcast platforms.

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Here’s a good talk about other styles and other species, and how using a spinning rod or baitcaster can open up your fishing world to a more complete set of skills and a better understanding of . . . fishing.

Most fly anglers can pick up and cast a spinning rod or baitcaster, but if you spend some real time to develop an intimate understanding of the strengths and the possibilities, you gain another base of knowledge.

The same can be said for chasing other species: bass, carp, musky, redfish, permit, snook, striper. They’re all different, all with unique challenges and solutions that transfer over to the trout world, given the right circumstance.

The question is, can you learn everything — that same, full skillset of presentations, of reading a river and more, by only fishing a fly rod? That’s part of what we talk about in this podcast.

My good friends Austin Dando and Bill Dell join me.

Resources

PODCAST: Troutbitten | The Versatile Angler – S3, Ep15
VIDEO: Troutbitten | Fish and Film – One Morning for Versatility

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Season 19 continues next week. So look for that in your Troutbitten podcast feed.

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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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