** Video Appears Below. ** 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...
The Troutbitten Podcast is available everywhere that you listen to your podcasts. ** Note ** The Podcast Player, along with links to your favorite players is below. Across the country, there are rivers, creeks and streams stocked by the state, often referred to as...
The Troutbitten Podcast is available everywhere that you listen to your podcasts. ** Note ** The Podcast Player, along with links to your favorite players is below. This season has been all about options for moving the streamer. Our focus has been on the animations...
The Troutbitten Podcast is available everywhere that you listen to your podcasts. ** Note ** The Podcast Player, along with links to your favorite players is below. The tight line dance is another collection of movements to the streamer loosely grouped together into...
The Crossover is a group of animations brought into a system, a mindset, or a framework for fishing your streamer.
The Crossover technique is all about getting the streamer low — in the strike zone — and then animating it within a narrow range, being careful not to move the fly out of the strike zone or move it too far.
Speed leads happen mostly in one lane, and they go faster than their parent current. Lane changes are exactly what they sound like — the fly is traveling in one lane, and then we deliberately bring the fly over to a nearby lane and travel down that one.
The speed lead is a term coined by our friend, Josh Stewart. Way back in 2017, I published a few articles about low-riding streamer presentations, with streamers tied on lead ball jigs. I’d gotten the idea from Rich Strolis, and it was a bit of an underground thing at the time. I remember that Stewey got in touch after reading my article, and we started sharing ideas and presentation styles with some of these flies. When I described leading low but faster than the current, Josh said he called it a speed lead, and it was one of his best tactics for stirring up big trout . . .
We’re here to talk about one of the most basic movements performed on any fly, lure or bait — jigging.
Moving the fly up and then letting it drop is a simple motion with complex options. And in this podcast, we break down the differences between slack jigging, contact jigging and pendulum jigging.
Swinging is arguably the easiest presentation on a streamer. That also might make it the most relaxing. It’s a great way to cover a lot of water, and it’s an easy way to stay in rhythm. But there are some downsides too.
Streamer fishing is best when we actively and intentionally move the fly. But with glides and slides, our animations are often subtle, because sometimes these are the most natural or convincing looks . . .
I think drop rate is the most important quality of a streamer. I believe how fast a fly falls is the biggest factor in its performance, because drop rate affects everything else about how we might move the fly.
Weight is easily measurable, so it’s a comfortable quality to talk about and compare. Drop rate can be measured, but it’s not easy. And I don’t know many anglers who know the ips rating (inches per second) for their streamers. But maybe we should . . .