** NOTE ** Video Appears Below. Many of these nine essential skills happen within the first couple seconds of the presentation -- often less. And immediately after we stick the landing on the sighter (putting it in the perfect angle and height) we must begin...
** NOTE ** Video Appears Below. Sticking the landing is about putting the sighter in the perfect position for a great drift. The fly hits, tippet enters, and the sighter sets up in the air at an angle. Sticking the landing puts us in immediate control and it enhances...
** NOTE ** Video Appears Below. The tuck cast is at the heart of a good tight line nymphing presentation. It's the result of good turnover in the air. It's a simple fly-first entry. The tucks cast is not a specialized cast; it's a one-hundred percent cast. Every time,...
** NOTE ** Video Appears Below. Success begins with how we approach the water and with the angles we choose to fish, because the tight line advantage falls apart if we're not in the best position for great drifts. These nine essential skills are the baseline for dead...
My friends and I don’t go fishing with our mind set on a certain tactic. We let the trout make those decisions, and we’re ready for anything. The Troutbitten Standard Mono Rig is the perfect tool for such an approach.
. . . It’s a versatile tool. It’s a hybrid system. And to maximize those options, simple adjustments are necessary. This video shows those adjustments in detail . . .
For over a decade, my Troutbitten friends and I have fished a small yarn indicator that weighs nothing, is extremely sensitive, versatile, cheap, doesn’t affect the cast, and flat out catches more trout than any other indicator we’ve ever used. What we call “the Dorsey” is a daily-use tool that is integral to our nymphing system. We mount it on a tight line rig or a traditional leader with fly line. It floats like crazy. It signals takes and information about the drift like no other indy we’ve ever used, and it’s an unstoppable fish catcher.
The Troutbitten Spring Sale ’24 is here, with all leaders, hats and stickers back in the Troutbitten Shop. With this round, we have a few special items to offer, from the Troutbitten and New Trail Brewing company collaboration. There’s a Fish Hard / Drink Beer hat, sticker and t-shirt. The Troutbitten Shop is fully stocked. Hats, leaders, stickers, shirts, hoodies and more are ready to go.
We spend so much time refining presentations and trying to achieve perfectly natural dead drifts that moving the nymph a bit, animating the fly, is liberating. It’s fun.
One rod length over and two rod lengths up. That’s the Golden Ratio. That’s the baseline, and it’s where trust in our drift begins. There are surely moments and situations that call for something different. But a good tight line style starts here, within the Golden Ratio of nymphing . . .
This episode is about tension and slack. It’s about how we manage fly lines and leaders on the water while nymphing. My friend, Austin Dando, joins me to walk through the tight line advantage of keeping line off the water and what happens when we give that up. Fishing greater distances often requires laying line on the water, and how we manage that line, how we plan for it, makes all the difference between a great drift and a poor one . . .