** NOTE ** Find the Companion YouTube Video Below Here's a look at fishing dry flies in faster water -- in more complex currents -- because there’s a unique set of skills to get true dead drifts in the fast water and pocket water. The drifts are shorter and harder to...
Today's remix is a favorite video from the archives. You can find it here: Four Moments to Shoot Line Enjoy the day. Domenick Swentosky T R O U T B I T T E N domenick@troutbitten.com
Mike showed up on time with all the gear — everything he'd need for a long day on the river, including an optimistic disposition. I suppose the way I guide is a little different. Troutbitten tends to find the die hard anglers, often accomplished in skill,...
** NOTE ** Video for The Lagging Curve Cast Appears Below. The Lagging Curve is a beautiful way to provide slack to a dry fly, and it's my favorite way to get perfect dead drifts to a dry fly rivers. I fish a lagging curve at just about any angle, using both a...
Admiring your casting loops makes you less accurate while also removing your focus from the water and your target. It’s a beginner’s habit that anyone can break in a couple hours, And it’s worth it.
In the short term, reeling with the casting hand might lose fish. But in the long term, it encourages poor line maintenance principles.
In this article I give a lot of thought to the various inefficiencies and handicaps that hurt when reeling with the casting hand . . .
Rounding the corner with a Corner Cast often outperforms a Roll Cast. It’s faster, more efficient and easier. But remember, it requires great casting from, with good line speed and crisp stops. That’s where good fly casting always begins. So develop a good baseline and everything else will follow. . . .
The tuck cast presents a fly-first entry, from very steep and vertical with extra slack, to almost flat, with immediate contact. That’s how flexible the tuck cast is. It’s useful. In fact, it’s critical to how I present nymphs and streamers.
The fundamental kernel of fly fishing lies in the angler’s ability to cast and manipulate line, leader and tippet, to send not just a fly to the target, but to also control what that fly is attached to, both in the cast and throughout the drift. This is what separates fly fishing from conventional tackle. And nothing teaches or trains an angler better in this concept, revealing the options inherent, better than fishing dry flies . . .
All fly types — all rigs — need speed to reach their potential. Cast with acceleration and good crisp loops. Do it with dry flies, nymphs, indicator rigs and streamers. And don’t let anyone tell you differently . . .