Troutbitten In Deep is available as a video on Troutbitten YouTube and in audio podcast format everywhere you find your podcasts. Links to both formats are embedded below. The Troutbitten In Deep Interview series is here! This project has been in development for...
** NOTE ** Video Appears Below Fishing is a story . . . Late summer trout fishing in the Northeast can be challenging. But I've had good mornings by choosing cold water and staying open minded to the trout's patterns and habits. Surprisingly, the best fishing has been...
The 2025 cicadas came and went in a six week frame. The experience of chasing trout on big bugs every day left me burned out and exhausted, but grateful and content. VIDEO: Troutbitten | Fish and Film - Post Cicada Blues It also left me with a new understanding of my...
** NOTE ** Video Appears Below Fishing is a story . . . Seventeen years ago, the most remarkable thing happened in my fishing life. The periodical cicada emergence happened in plague numbers, in an area densely populated with wild trout that swim in cold waters — in...
Watch for different rise forms and prepare for the hooks set. It’s all a lot of fun when you realize that good fishing isn’t luck. It’s attention to detail with an open mind and a willingness to dive into the mystery . . .
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 in rivers. I fish a lagging curve at just about any angle, using both a forehand and backhand cast, and it provides slack to a dry fly for days.
The lagging curve is really the opposite of what most people mean by a curve cast. This is an underpowered curve and not a power curve.
The leader design matters a lot, and so does the casting stroke. I cover it all in the video . . .
The flies matter. But more than anything, it’s about matching the moment, the water type, the lifecycle of the bug – and even the wind conditions. For us, those conditions — those situations — dictate our next fly choice.
We don’t guess on patterns. Instead, we think about things, develop a theory and test it with the next fly choice and (hopefully) a great presentation.
The Troutbitten Shop Summer Sale ’24 is here, with all leaders, hats and stickers back in stock, along with two new leader designs.
The Harvey Gold has the heart of the Harvey Dry leader, with a little more heft in the butt section and a piece of Gold Stren for a short sighter. The system allows for the quick swap of tippet sections, each specifically built for the river conditions, making this a truly modular leader without sacrifices (almost) . . .
With all the right tools of rod, line, and leader, with all the knowledge about casting options, and with serious dedication to line speed, you need just one more thing.
Guts. Courage. Fortitude.
A willingness to fail.
Take your shots. That’s the only way toward a real education on small streams. Make the casts you think you can’t make. Eventually, instinct takes over and the fly goes into tighter targets than you ever thought possible . . .